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I Like To Work With Artists From Around The World. There Are So Many New Inspiring Filmmakers. I Had The Privilege Recently To Work With Ethiopian Filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari And His Wife On The Film Difret. They Are That Unique Balance Of Very Thoughtful Conscious Filmmakers Who Are Also Brilliant, Original Artists.

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I Like To Work With Artists From Around The World. There Are So Many New Inspiring Filmmakers. I Had The Privilege Recently To Work With Ethiopian Filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari And His Wife On The Film Difret. They Are That Unique Balance Of Very Thoughtful Conscious Filmmakers Who Are Also Brilliant, Original Artists.

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Violence Against Women Is Still Treated As A Lesser Crime. Armed Groups Turn It Into A Weapon Of Choice Because Of Near Total Impunity.

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I Can Tell My Children That They Don't Need To Fear They Will Lose Me To Breast Cancer.

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I Loved Being On The Other Side Of The Camera. I Loved Watching Another Actress In The Spotlight, Do An Extraordinary Job, And I Loved Making Her Beautiful And Interesting, Protecting Her Emotions, And Showing People Her Talent.

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The Nice Thing About Being A Director Is That I Can Say, "i Can Only Get Into The Room After The Kids Are At School, And I Have To Be Back For Dinner. And They're Coming For Lunch."

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Sometimes Acting And Politics Make A Very Bad Combination. I Think That Sometimes People Take Me Less Seriously In My Work For The Un Because I Am An Actor.

I Didn't Even Know My Bra Size Until I Made A Movie.

There Is No Shame In Being A Survivor Of Sexual Violence. The Shame Is On The Aggressor.

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Nothing Would Mean Anything If I Didn't Live A Life Of Use To Others.

I Like Someone Who Is A Little Crazy But Coming From A Good Place. I Think Scars Are Sexy Because It Means You Made A Mistake That Led To A Mess.

I Realized That Very Young - That A Life Where You Don't Live To Your Full Potential, Or You Don't Experiment, Or You're Afraid, Or You Hesitate, Or There Are Things You Know You Should Do But You Just Don't Get Around To Them, Is A Life That I'd Be Miserable Living, And The Only Way To Feel That I'm On The Right Path Is Just To Be True To Myself, Whatever That May Be, And That Tends To Come With Stepping Out Of Something That's Maybe Safe Or Traditional.

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.

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I Wish I Could Find People Who Just Would Fight Me And Break Through To Me And Hold Me Down And Scream Their Life Into My Face.

The Truth Is I Love Being Alive. And I Love Feeling Free. So If I Can't Have Those Things Then I Feel Like A Caged Animal And I'd Rather Not Be In A Cage. I'd Rather Be Dead. And It's Real Simple. And I Think It's Not That Uncommon.

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.

Happy Endings Are Just Stories That Haven't Finished Yet.

For Anybody That Works In Any Kind Of Demining Or Any Kind Of Humanitarian Aid Work, There Is Danger And It's Always A High-risk Area [in Cambodia].

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.

All Of Us Would Like To Believe That If We Were In A Bad Situation Someone Would Help Us.

When Those Who Have The Opportunity To Speak To Those Politicians They Must Do So And If One Doesn't Have That Opportunity To Speak Directly, They Can Still Speak Indirectly And It Can Be Heard.

I Don't See Myself As Beautiful, Because I Can See A Lot Of Flaws. People Have Really Odd Opinions. They Tell Me I'm Skinny, As If That's Supposed To Make Me Happy.

To Be In Any Way A Positive Contribution, That's All Anybody Wants To Be. It's All I've Ever Wanted To Be. I Wanted To Be An Artist, Be A Mother. You Want To Feel That In Your Life You've Been Of Use, In Whatever Way That Comes Out.

I Grew Up As This Very Carefree, Happy Kid Then Things Turned Darker For Me. Maybe It Was Because I Saw That The World Wasn't As Happy A Place As I Had Hoped It Would Be For Me.

Therapy? I Don't Need That. The Roles That I Choose Are My Therapy.

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.

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 Have Men In My Life. I Have A Brother. So Maddox Will Have Male Teachers. I Was Raised Without A Father.

Most Nights, Someone Ends Up In Our Bed. The Kids Do Knock Before Entering. We've At Least Got That Part Down Because Mommy And Daddy Need Some Space.

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There's People Constantly Asking You For Something On Set, So The Multi-tasking Of Motherhood Transfers Very Well To Being A Director. And I Think You're Compassionate.

My Kids Will Be Needing Me A Lot When They Hit Their Teens. If I Know Anything About Being A Teenager. I Need To Be Braced To Be Spending A Lot Of Time With All Six Of Them And Making Sure I Can Be There For When They Go Through Everything.

I Have So Much In My Life. I Want To Be Of Value To The World.

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

We Need The Political Will, And That Often Comes From The Will Of The People. So If Celebrities Or Personalities Can Help To Educate The People - Not Influence Them, Not Tell Them (what To Do) - Just Tell Them The Truth About What's Happening And Let Them Form Their Own Opinion, That Will Strengthen Them And They Will Push Their Politicians.

Every Day We Choose Who We Are By How We Define Ourselves.

I'm Drawn To Kids That Are Already Born. I Think Some People Are Meant To Do Certain Things, And I Believe I'm Meant To Find My Children In The World Somewhere And Not Necessarily Have Them Genetically.

Because I Am A Bad Girl, People Always Automatically Think That I Am A Bad Girl. Or That I Carry A Dark Secret With Me Or That I'm Obsessed With Death. The Truth Is That I Am Probably The Least Morbid Person One Can Meet. If I Think More About Death Than Some Other People, It Is Probably Because I Love Life More Than They Do.

The Cost Of Testing For Brca1 And Brca2, At More Than $3,000 In The United States, Remains An Obstacle For Many Women.

In Countries Where People Have To Flee Their Homes Because Of Persecution And Violence, Political Solutions Must Be Found, Peace And Tolerance Restored, So That Refugees Can Return Home. In My Experience, Going Home Is The Deepest Wish Of Most Refugees.

It's Easier To Be With Somebody. But It's Better To Be Single If You're With The Wrong Person.

Don't Fit In, Don't Sit Still, Don't Ever Try To Be Less Than What You Are...

Anything That Feels Good Couldn't Possibly Be Bad.

Self Indulgence

I Collect Books, And I Love Libraries. I Love Bookstores. And To Me Meeting A Writer Is Important. And When I Saw A Book With My Name On It I Almost Passed Out.

The Beautiful Thing About Such Moments In Life Is That There Is So Much Clarity. You Know What You Live For And What Matters.

Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Free.

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."

My Earliest Memories Are Of My Brother, Pointing The Home Video Camera At Me And Saying, "c'mon, Ange, Give Us A Show!" Neither Of My Parents Ever Said, "be Quiet! Stop Talking!" I Remember My Father Looking Me In The Eye And Asking, "what Are You Thinking? What Are You Feeling?" That's What I Do In My Job Now - I Say. "ok, How Do I Feel About This?" And I Immediately Know, Because That's How I Grew Up.

I've Realized That Being Happy Is A Choice.

My Role As Goodwill Ambassador Has Made My Work As A Film Star Relatively Dull. I Can`t Find Anything That Interests Me Enough To Go Back To Work. I`m Simply Not Excited About Anything. I`m Not Excited About Going To A Film Set.

It's Angering That Not Everybody Has Signed This Treaty To Ban Landmines. It's Disgusting, It Really Is, Because It Is Fact That (mines) Hurt A High Percentage Of Civilians. They're Not Effective In Any Other Real Way. They've Enough Weapons For War.

My Mom Always Wanted Me To Be An Actor. And I Started Going To Theater And Going On Auditions Young. I Only Realized About Five Years Ago That I Actually Didn’t Want To Be An Actor.

I Need More Sex, Ok? Before I Die I Wanna Taste Everyone In The World.

I Thought I'd Become A Funeral Director When I Wasn't Going To Be An Actor. I Thought I Would Be Good At Helping Some People With The Grieving Process And With Trying To Get Them To Talk About And Understand Who This Person Was.

I Think We Should Try To Be Responsible And Educate Ourselves. I'm Simply Doing That And Traveling, Learning First Hand, And Seeing First Hand What's Going On.

When Someone Loves You, And When You Make Someone Happy, You Suddenly Start To Feel The Most Beautiful Person In The World.

Make Someone Happy

I Love Doing Action. And I Love Doing Dramatic Films, And I'd Never Really Been Able To Combine Them.

Some People Go Shopping - I Cut Myself.

I Like To Hide Behind The Characters I Play.

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.

They Say It's Better Than Sex. It's So Much Better. It's Amazing.

I Love Directing, It Means So Much To Me To Direct Stories About Subject Matter That I Care Deeply About. I Can Act In Many Things, And You Can Try To Experience Different Characters, But To Direct Is Years Of Your Life And You Have To Really Love It And Believe In It.

I Used To Think I Was Unstable, Because I Had This Thirst For Something. I Could Never Figure Out What It Was. I Couldn’t Sleep At Night, And I Always Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. I Have A Window Tattooed, This Little Box, And It’s Because Wherever I Was, I Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. And, I Always Saw Myself, Wherever I Was In Life, Staring Out The Window.

Usually All My Tattoos Came At Good Times. A Tattoo Is Something Permanent When You've Made A Self-discovery, Or Something You've Come To A Conclusion About.

It's Hard To Be Clear About Who You Are When You Are Carrying Around A Bunch Of Baggage From The Past. I've Learned To Let Go And Move More Quickly Into The Next Place.

I Don't Do Things That Are Comedic. This Is Such A Crazy Idea.

People Will Always Say All Sorts Of Stuff. Let Them. I'm Enjoying My Life

I Eat Steamed Sea Bass And Vegetables, And I Have No Sugar, And Only Drink Soy Milk.

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.

The Only Way To Have A Life Is To Commit To It Like Crazy.

I Do Believe In The Old Saying 'what Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger.' Our Experiences, Good And Bad, Make Us Who We Are. By Overcoming Difficulties, We Gain Strength And Maturity.

A Single Journey Can Change The Course Of A Life.

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

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.

I Don't See Myself As Beautiful, Because I Can See A Lot Of Flaws.

I'd Go From Film To Film And Almost Detach From One World And Jump In Another. I Was Living As These People And Not Having A Self. I Didn't Know Who I Was. And Things Just Get Really Dark.

Women And Girls Are Bearing The Brunt Of Extremists That Revel In Treating Them Barbarically. This Is Inextricably Linked To Our Overall Failure To Prevent And End Conflicts Worldwide, Which Is Causing Human Suffering On An Unprecedented Level.

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