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I Have A Certain Energy On Screen, And It's Either Needed Or It's Definitely Not Needed. I Know That I Can Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb, And There Are Some Women I'm Not Ready To Play.

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I Have A Certain

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I Have A Certain Energy On Screen, And It's Either Needed Or It's Definitely Not Needed. I Know That I Can Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb, And There Are Some Women I'm Not Ready To Play.

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Being Different

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The Fact Is I Am Not Having Sex. But I Feel Absolutely Ripe For The, What Would You Say? Plucking?

I Think If You Make A Good Movie People Walk Away Arguing.

It's Hard No To Work, So I Find A Way To Put Myself Back To Work. And I Think It's Important, In Between Projects, For Me To Sit Down With Who I've Just Become And Allow Her To Continue To Evolve And Find A Home Inside Me Before I Go And Become Somebody Else. But I Think I Also Need To Learn To Relax And Not Prepare Too Much, Just Enjoy Life. I Notice That My Characters Go Out To Dinner And Have Fun And Take These Great Trips, But I Spend So Much Time On Their Lives, I Don't Have Much Of A Personal Life Of My Own. I Have To Sort Of Remember To Fill Out That Little Notebook On Me.

I'm A Fairy. I'd Come And Hear, "how Was Your Day, Honey?" And I'd Be Like, "i Was A Fairy. I Don't Know."

We're All Just Big Kids. That's All We Are. We Are Artistes. We Grew Up Wanting To Be Part Of The Fantasy Of The Fairy Tales And The Stories.

If You Ask People What They've Always Wanted To Do, Most People Haven't Done It. That Breaks My Heart.

People Will Say What They Want To Say, And It's Okay. And My Life Will Go On, And I Need To Focus On My Life. So, Do I Need To Defend That I'm A Decent Woman? I Sure Hope I Don't. I Know I Am.

The Money It Would Cost To Buy Another Car Could Be [used To] Build Two Schools. So It's An Easy Choice That Makes Me Very Happy.

I Love Doing Lesbian Love Scenes. Before I Did My Lesbian Scenes In Gia, I Talked To Actresses Who Said Love Scenes Are Easier With Another Woman Than A Man. Bound's Gina Gershon And Jennifer Tilly Said They'd Lie There And Discuss The Sale At Barney's Between Takes.

The Life Changing Moment For Me What The First Time I Went To A War Zone And That Was Sierra Leone. I Took Two Weeks, Eleven Years Ago And I Went. I Wasn't An Ambassador Or Anything I Just Asked To Go And I Was Allowed To Go. It Was Like Someone Smacked Me In The Face.

I Have To Concentrate On My Son. That's Why I Have Lovers Right Now And Not A Boyfriend. I Don't Want My Son To Start Calling Somebody Daddy Unless That Person's Gonna Stay.

After My Last Divorce, I Said I Was Absolutely Going To Marry Somebody In Another Field, An Aid Worker Or Something. Then I Met Brad, Everything I Wasn't Looking For, But The Best Man, The Best Father I Could Possibly Wish For, You Know? I Don't See Him As An Actor. I See Him Very Much As A Dad, As Somebody Who Loves Travel And Architecture More Than Being In Movies.

If Every Choice You Make Comes From An Honest Place, You’re Solid And Nothing Anybody Can Say About You Can Rock You Or Change Your Opinion. It Doesn’t Shake Me Because I Know Why I Do The Things I Do And I Know I Come From A Good Place And So People Can Judge Me However They Wish. But I Know I’ll Continue To Do The Best I Can And Be The Best I Can.

I'm Happy Being Myself, Which I've Never Been Before. I Always Hid In Other People, Or Tried To Find Myself Through The Characters, Or Live Out Their Lives, But I Didn't Have Those Things In Mine.

I'm Not Somebody That Thinks About Destiny And Fate, But I Don't Walk Away From It When Something Unfolds.

I Don't Understand Why Some Things Are Talked About And Others Are Not. I Don't Know Why I Think I Can Make Any Kind Of Difference. All I Know Is That I Want To.

Not Many People Know This About Me, But I'm A Natural Blonde. My Hair Went From Light Blonde Naturally To A Darker Kind Of Blonde. My Mother Dyed My Hair Dark When I Was A Child, As I Loved The Look Then. So I'm Basically A Natural Blonde.

If I Didn't Have My Films As An Outlet For All The Different Sides Of Me, I Would Probably Be Locked Up.

Becoming A Parent Has Just Completely Changed Me, And Made Life So Beautiful And Given Me Such A Center And A Focus And Such Joy.

I'd Like There To Be Less Refugees. I'd Like All Girls To Go To School. That's What We Need To Be Thinking About, And Working On Making Our Own Families Good And Strong And Our Own Kids Happy.

I Always Work With Refugees And I Think They Are The Most Amazing People And It's A Privilege To Spend Time With Them, So I Will Always.

I Met This Amazing Person, And We Realized We Had Very Similar Views On How We Wanted To Live Our Lives. It’s Happened Quickly, With So Many Children. Yesterday, Picking Up The Kids From School, Brad Turned Around In The Car, And There Were Three Of Them. He Couldn’t Stop Laughing. We Love Them And Are Having A Great Time.

Without Pain, There Would Be No Suffering, Without Suffering We Would Never Learn From Our Mistakes. To Make It Right, Pain And Suffering Is The Key To All Windows, Without It, There Is No Way Of Life.

We Need To Be Open Minded To Understand That There Are Lots Of Different Levels Of Things Going On And We Shouldn't Be So Quick To Judge - And Certainly Not To Judge A Whole Race, A Whole Religion Or A Whole People - And A Lot Of That Is Going On.

We Cannot Look At Syria, And The Evil That Has Arisen From The Ashes Of Indecision, And Think This Is Not The Lowest Point In The World's Inability To Protect And Defend The Innocent.

I'm A Very Private Person. I Don't Go Out Much. I'm Home With Kids. I Go To Work. I Don't Really Like Being The Focus Of Attention, Which Is Why I Like Being Behind The Camera More.

Love One Person, Take Care Of Them Until You Die. You Know, Raise Kids. Have A Good Life. Be A Good Friend. And Try To Be Completely Who You Are. And Figure Out What You Personally Love. And Like Go After It With Everything You've Got No Matter How Much It Takes.

I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

We Need Policies For Long-term Security That Are Designed By Women, Focused On Women, Executed By Women Not At The Expense Of Men, Or Instead Of Men, But Alongside And With Men.

Some People Go Shopping - I Cut Myself.

I Never Thought I'd Have Children; I Never Thought I'd Be In Love, I Never Thought I'd Meet The Right Person. Having Come From A Broken Home - You Kind Of Accept That Certain Things Feel Like A Fairy Tale, And You Just Don't Look For Them.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures.

I'm Somebody Who Works Within Cambodia, With Cambodians. I Work Alongside The Artists And Society To Work From Within, So That Is The Focus, And From That I Hope Everybody Who Believes In Democracy, In Certain Freedoms, Will Get Louder, Will Grow Their Voices.

I'm With A Man Who's Evolved Enough To Look At My Body And See It As More Beautiful Because Of The Journey It Has Taken.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

It's Just Such A Freeing Thing To Set These Great Challenges For Yourself, To Travel, To Learn More About The World, To Just Go Out There And Get Crazy And Get Free And Get Strong.

Love - Is When You Wish All The Best To The People You Love, When You Put Their Interests And Well-being Above Their Own. Always.

Acting Is Not Pretending Or Lying. It's Finding A Side Of Yourself That's The Character And Ignoring Your Other Sides. And There's A Side Of Me That Wonders What's Wrong With Being Completely Honest.

Make Bold Choices And Make Mistakes. It's All Those Things That Add Up To The Person You Become.

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