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I Think That The Most Difficult Thing Is Allowing Yourself To Be Loved, So Receiving The Love And Feeling Like You Deserve It Is A Pretty Big Struggle. I Suppose That's What I've Learnt Recently, To Allow Myself To Be Loved.

-Nicole Kidman

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I Think That The Most Difficult Thing Is Allowing Yourself To Be Loved, So Receiving The Love And Feeling Like You Deserve It Is A Pretty Big Struggle. I Suppose That's What I've Learnt Recently, To Allow Myself To Be Loved.

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I Like The Privacy Of My Life And I Protect It Quite Vigilantly.

To Be An Actor You Have To Have A Certain Amount Of Madness In You. That’s Why, When People Meet You And You Seem Very Together, They Are Quite Surprised - They Don’t See You Behind Closed Doors.

I've Always Been Interested In Our Flaws As Human Beings, Just As Much As The Virtues.

It Took Me A Very Long Time To Heal. It Was A Shock To My System.

I Don't Really Celebrate Fame Because I Get Enough Attention.

The Ancient Greeks, Poets, Authors And Philosophers All Puzzled Over The Question But Nobody Really Knows What Love Is - Including Me. Longing For Another Person Is An Exciting Mental Experience.

As Much As I Have Films And All That Sort Of Stuff, A Lot Of My Memories Are To Do With Relationships And Love.

I'm Not Saying It's For Everyone, But It's Better To Be Alone Than In A Lousy Relationship.

There's Something To Be Said For Going Back To A Simple Form Of Living-nature And Family. There's Something Very...there's Safety In That.

I Love Lying In Darkness.

I Want To Be Tested Beyond My Comfort Zone. I Don't Want To Be Safe If It Is More Interesting To Be Dangerous.

I Don't Mind Being Naked.

The Loss Of A Child Is The Most Terrifying Place For Me To Go.

Loss Of A Child

You're Not Anyone In America Unless You're On Tv.

I'm Interested In Going Places That I Haven't Been. And I'm Interesting In Working With People That I Feel Are Dangerous And Sort Of Push Me In Different Places.

I Never Knew I'd Be In A Musical, Let Alone Win An Award For One.

~my Instinct Is To Protect My Children From Pain. But Adversity Is Often The Thing That Gives Us Character And Backbone. It's Always Been A Struggle For Me To Back Off And Let My Children Go Through Difficult Experiences.~

I’m Always Interested In Films That Are About Extreme Subject Matters.

As An Actor You're Only As Good As The Things You're Offered. And There Just Weren't Any Female Directors Offering Me Things. So When You Dissect That, You Realize There Aren't Women Offering You Things Because They Don't Have The Opportunities. I Work To Raise Money For Women's Cancers; I Use My Voice For Violence Against Women.

It Was Very Natural For Me To Want To Disappear Into The Theatre, I Am Really Very Shy.

I Look At Everything I’ve Done Critically - But I Think That’s The Job Of An Actor. If You Ever Sit On Your Laurels Or Think That You’re Good - In A Way, I Don’t Then Think You’re Pushing Yourself.

Why Do A Crappy Film Role When You Can Do A Meaty Stage Role? And ...i'm Not Small And Curvy And I Don't Fit The Prerequiste For Small, Passive, Sexy Chicks.

I Think I Would Be Very Sad If I Wasn't Able To Have A Baby.

Once I Start Putting All My Little Insecurities In My Mind, I'm Not Actually Acting. Then It's About Me - And It Should Never Be About Me. It Should Be About The Character.

I've Always Loved The Drama And The Creating Of A Role And Performance And All That Comes With That, But I Then Also Kind Of Like To Have Just The White Picket Fence Life If That Makes Sense.

I Didn't Really Care About My Physical Health; I Only Cared About What Was On Screen.

Physical Health

Acting For Me Is Not A Business, It's About Trying To Make Pieces Of Art That I Believe That I Feel Proud Of. And It's The Journey Of That.

I'm Reserved. I'm More Of An Introvert Than An Extrovert.

You Start Out With Big Dreams And I Mean, Big Dreams Artistically. You Want To Work With The Greatest Living Directors, Make A Great Movie. I Wanted To Make A Great Love Story, I Wanted To Make A Great Epic And Then You Realize That The Truth Of It Is That It's So Hard To Make A Great Film. It's Hard To Get A Great Role. Those Big Expectations Change To Realism Pretty Quickly. But What's Never Changed Is My Desire To Work With Great Directors And To Find Projects That Push Me Out Of My Comfort Zone And Keep Me Alive. I Still Don't Think I've Done My Best Work

I Think It's Important For Me As An Actor That I Say These Are The Issues I'm Going To Be Committed To. One Of Them For Me Is Women And Children's Health Around The World And Their Rights;the Other Is Ovarian Cancer.

My Choices In Films Are Spontaneous.

Men Don't Pay You For Sex, They Pay You To Leave After Sex.

I Think That The Most Difficult Thing Is Allowing Yourself To Be Loved, So Receiving The Love And Feeling Like You Deserve It Is A Pretty Big Struggle. I Suppose That's What I've Learnt Recently, To Allow Myself To Be Loved.

Sometimes As An Actor You're Struggling To Make Things Work. That Was Never The Case For Me With [big Little Lies Script]. It Just Kind Of Flowed Out.

At This Time In My Life, I Want To Be Giving To My Relationships. And Out Of That, Whatever Work You Do Prospers Because You Have More To Give. There's Something Very Primal About Giving Birth. It Puts You In A State Of Being Very Raw.

It's My Job As An Actor To Commit To The Role And Not - Through My Own Inhibitions - Run Away.

They've Said I'm Gay, They've Said Everyone Is Gay. I Personally Don't Believe In Doing Huge Lawsuits About That Stuff. Tom Does. That's What He Wants To Do, That's What He's Going To Do. You Do Not Tell Tom What To Do. He Is A Force To Be Reckoned With.

I Always Wanted To Get Married With Just Candles! I Think Candlelight Is The Most Beautiful Light There Is And There's Something Very Spiritual About It.

I Have A Boy's Body. I Would Prefer To Have More Curves Because I Think That's More Beautiful. I Would Much Rather Have J. Lo's Body Than Mine.

You Look At Somebody's Work As An Actor And You Can See Their Emotional Life Being Fed Into It And You Can Kind Of Feel Them Through It.

In Particular, For My Character, Celeste [in Big Little Lies], There Was A Way In Which We Wanted To Present Her, Because She Has Sort Of Barriers That She Has To Put Up For Protection Because Of Things That Are Going On In Her Life. Yet She Wants To Be, I Suppose, Very Presentable But Neutral.

With Every Character, You Alter, You Can’t Be Attached To Your Own Identity.

It's So Bizarre, I'm Not Scared Of Snakes Or Spiders. But I'm Scared Of Butterflies. There Is Something Eerie About Them. Something Weird!

I Dig My Heels In Every Now And Then, And Think 'i'm Not Going To Do What's Expected Or What People Think Is The Right Thing.' So I Have A Little Bit Of That In My Personality.

My Personality Does Well With People Who Are Deemed Difficult. I Don't Know Why It Does But I Just Seem To Get Along With Them. The More Difficult The Better.

I've Always Been Somebody On A Journey Of Discovery.

I'm Willing To Fly Close To The Flame.

You've Got To Find Your Bliss As A Human Being, Because If You Can Follow That, Everything Else Falls Into Place.

Ultimately, You're Left With The People You Love And Who Love You- Everything Else Fades Into Oblivion.

The Thing I'm Not Good With Is Mediocrity, When Someone Isn't Really Trying To Reach Something.

I Think You Put Art Out Into The World, And Sometimes It's Divisive, Sometimes It's Embraced. Sometimes People Cry, Laugh Or Have Complicated Reactions.

I Wouldn't Want To Be Married To Me, But Luckily Tom Cruise Does.

I Have A Little Bit Of A Belly, A Tiny Bit Of Pooch. It's The One Thing I Don't Want To Lose. I Just Like Having Some Softness. If I Lose That, Then Tom Might Leave Me.

I'm Interested In Storytelling. I Love Being An Artist Now And Connecting Through Art.

You Live A Third Of Your Life When You Dream. So You May As Well Live In Your Dreams The Way You Want To Be Living. The Way You Want To Be.

I Like Bold Directors. I Like Directors That Go Against The Norm In A Way.

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And I Am Standing In Front Of My Mother, And My Whole Life I Have Wanted To Make My Mother Proud. And Now I'm Going To Make My Daughter Proud.

The Reality Of One Night, Let Alone That Of A Whole Lifetime, Can Never Be The Whole Truth.

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If You've Got Red Hair, Try Washing It In Cranberry Juice. And, If You're Blonde, A Champagne Rinse Can Work Wonders.

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Forget The Past. You Can Never Predict What The Future Is Going To Be. Live For The Moment.

Live In The Moment

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It's The Warmest, Loveliest Community I've Ever Set Foot In. For Me, It's The Perfect Place To Live. It's The Best Part Of America.

I Wear Sunscreen, And I Don't Smoke. I Take Care Of Myself. And I'm Very Proud To Say That.

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It's Very Easy For A Couple To Experience Joy Together. But When You Experience Pain Together, It Can Lead To Such Depth And Such Union. That Is When You Fuse.

I'm Especially Interested In Helping To Give Visibility To The Pandemic Of Violence Against Women

One In Three Women May Suffer From Abuse And Violence In Her Lifetime. This Is An Appalling Human Rights Violation, Yet It Remains One Of The Invisible And Under-recognized Pandemics Of Our Time.

It's Very Easy To Fall In Love When Things Are Great, But The Way To Really Fall In Love Is When Things Aren't Great.

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I Love That ["big Little Lies"] Is About Women Coming Together And Making Something Happen Very Quickly, With Friendship Being The Core Of It.

I Do Have To Say My Daughter, Sunday, Said To Me [i Was Being] Overprotective, So You Must Have Been A Fly On The Wall.

I'll Put It Out There: I Love Getting Hugs.

The Thing You Hate About Yourself Tends To Be The Thing That Everyone Likes About You.

If You're Intuitive And You Have A Desire For People To Be Happy And You Want Equilibrium And You Want Life To Be Good, Then You'll Worry. But We Need To Embrace The Idea That, "no, I'm Putting That Aside, Over There, In A Box. I'll Open That Box When I Wake Up In The Morning And Deal With It Then." I Really Find That Men Tend To Do That, And It's Great To Be Able To Do.

The Accumulation Of Experience Gives You A Debt In Terms Of Compassion. I Am Very Fortunate, And I Feel Dedicated To Giving Back To Other Women. Wherever I Am Now, I Make Sure I Visit A Women's Shelter. But I Don't Want To Do It In A Frivolous Way.

I Like Exploring Life And Its Complexities.

I Refuse To Let What Happened To Me Make Me Bitter.

I Think It's Important That We Don't All Have To Hold Our Heads High All The Time Saying Everything's Fine.

I Kept Looking For Happiness, And Then I Realized: This Is It. It's A Moment, And It Comes, And It Goes, And It'll Come Back Again. I Yearn For Things, But At The Same Time I'm Just Peaceful.

Looking For Happiness

People Can Tell You What To Do, But Ultimately, We're All Going To Die, So How Do You Want To Live?

If I Were A Strategically Minded Person, I Think I Would Have A Far Different Career.

I Want To Be Contributing And Working With People That I Like And Love, And This Was The Perfect Combination.

Even From A Very Early Age, I Knew I Didn't Want To Miss Out On Anything Life Had To Offer Just Because It Might Be Considered Dangerous.

Salary Stories Are Intrusive. Do You Ask Your Neighbour What They Earn For Their Job?

I'm Always Happy To Play The Bad Girl. I Just Get To Have Fun, And It's Obviously All Done With A Smile.

I Just Feel My Way Through. If I Had To Give An Acting Class, I Wouldn't Know What To Do.

Not To Be Too Detailed, But I've Had An Ectopic Pregnancy, Miscarriages And I've Had Fertility Treatments. I've Done All The Stuff You Can Possibly Do To Try Get Pregnant.

Sometimes Your Mistakes Are You Biggest Virtues. You Learn So Much From The Mistake. Those Things That You Think Are The Worst Thing That's Happening To You Can Somehow Turn Around And Be The Greatest Opportunity.

Probably The Biggest Compliment Someone Can Give You Is, "gosh, You Look Great. You Don't Look Tired."

They Give Us Access To Another World, They Give Us Access To Dreams. It's Our Way Of Living In A Different Realm For A Short Period Of Time - And How Beautiful Is That?

You Aren't Really Anybody In America If You're Not On Tv.

I Want To Be With People I Really Like. I Don't Want To Be Working On Things With People That I'm Not Happy To Be There [with].

I Was Told I Had A Two Per Cent Chance Of Getting Pregnant, So I Say She's A Two Per Cent Baby.

You'll Nip Anybody Who's Coming At You With Bullshit. You Don't Play Around. You Take This Craft Very Seriously. It's What Separates You, What Separates An Actor From An Artist.

Refuse To Let Your Circumstances Make You Bitter. Do What You Must To Make Them Better.

It's Very, Very Rare To Find Five Roles In One Piece Where We'd All Jump At The Chance To Play Any Of Them.

I Am Very Shy - Really Shy - I Even Had A Stutter As A Kid, Which I Slowly Got Over, But I Still Regress Into That Shyness. So I Don't Like Walking Into A Crowded Restaurant By Myself; I Don't Like Going To A Party By Myself.

I Think When You're In A Relationship Where You Really Care For The Other Person, When They Achieve Their Dreams It's Better Than When You Do Yourself.

My Life Collapsed. People Ran From Me Because Suddenly It Was, "oh My God! It's Over For Her Now!"

It's The Desire To Study The Human Condition, The Desire For Collaboration, To Learn And Absorb, And To Lead A Well-examined Life.

I Think That Divorce Is Hard For Anyone. It's A Nightmare - It Just Is - And You Can Pretend You're Fine. And [there Are] Days You're Great [and] Days You're Not Great.

Divorce Is Divorce And It's A Really Tough Thing To Go Through, (but) I'd Love To Get Married Again.

I Love Working With People Who Are Inspired And Obsessive.

Stay Out Of The Sun, Because It Is The Worst Thing In Terms Of Aging. I'm Very Medical. I Come From A Medical Family.

That Sort Of Detailed Filmmaking Is One, Hard To Do And Not Have It Be Pretentious, And Two, Have It Tell The Story, Which Is What You're Taught, That Cinema Is The Language Of Images And You Really Should Be Able To Make A Film With No Dialogue And Tell A Story.

When I Was Working With Stanley Kubrick [on "eyes Wide Shut"], He Would Always Say, "you Never Tell The Audience What To Feel. Let Them Choose To Have Their Responses."

I Was Walking Around Legally Blind. Now I Have 20-20 Vision. I Can't Believe I Spent So Many Years Blurry, But I Think That Coincides With How I Was Feeling. Now I Notice If People Are Watching Me, But I Also Smile Right Back If Someone Waves, Which Helps.

As A Child, My Whole Life Was Books. They Were My Fantasy. That's Where I Could Go. That Was A Lot Of Times [what] Saved Me.

I Think At Some Stage, I Would Love To Have Another Child. I Would Love To Settle Into A Relationship That Was Really Important To Me. I Actually Am Not Good At The Balance At That.

I Think Love Is The Core Emotion. Without That, And I've Certainly Existed Without That, It's A Very Empty Life.

When Falling In Love I Think You Should Say To Yourself, ‘i Am Going To Do This Fully.’ I Love To The Fullest Extent That I Possibly Can - And Why Not?... Maybe This Means There Is Going To Be Pain, But I Am Willing To Accept The Pain.

Falling In Love

I Got Married Really Fast And Really Young.

When You Know Psychologically What [characters] Are Feeling, Then That Plays Out On How You Dress A Lot Of Times.

The More You Love, The More You Crave.

Love And Flower

I Think Each Role Takes A Little From You And Circles Around You For The Rest Of Your Life. I Don't Think You Ever Abandon Any Of Them.

I Didn't Do So Well In The Academic World, So I Think The Only Way I Could Express Myself Was Through Visual Art - Anything I Could Get My Hands On, Whether It Was Glassblowing, Sculpture, Painting, Or Photography. I Always Wanted To Be A Painter. Or A Farmer.

I Love Just Sitting Quietly Meditating. With An Hour Free, It Depends. I Love Getting Down On The Floor And Playing With My Kids.

I Don't Like Changing With The Wind; I Like Sticking To My Own Self.

I'm Now So Much More Capable Of Receiving Love And Giving It In A Far Different Way.

As An Actor Timing Is Important, Especially As A Mother With Small Children, So A Lot Is Chance.

I Find Trying To Solve Problems And Save Lives Is Far More Important Than My Film Career.

I Always Try To Push Through Fear. I Won't Be Crippled By It. People Say, "oh You Take Such Risks", Or "you're Brave." And I'm Like, 'well, If You Knew - Inside I'm Really Frightened!' But The Way People Navigate Fear And Pain Is Fascinating... The More You Feel, The Stronger The Pain. And The More You Engage In Life, The More You Have To Lose.

Yippee! I Can't Believe I Made It. It Feels Like A Long Haul To Get Here. I'm So Fine With It. People Want You To Have Some Sort Of Breakdown, But I'm Relieved To Be 40 Years Old, And I've Lived A Life.

These Different People That I Play Become The Loves Of My Life.

Love Of My Life

We Worked With Jean-marc [vallée] [on Big Little Lies] In Terms Of Finding [style]. Because When You Have Five Women, You're Trying To Find How They Each Dress And How They Present Themselves To The World.

Vengeance Is A Lazy Form Of Grief.

I've Just Always Been Interested In How People Lead Their Lives. How They Survive In This World. I'm Curious About People's Damage, And Navigating That And The Way People Forgive. I Find It Really Interesting. That's Why We Have To Transform On A Daily Basis, Work On Ourselves. It's Work.

I Was Fair-skinned In A Country That's About The Outdoors.

I Love Acting But I Don't Like All Of The Other Stuff Associated With It. The Interest In Celebrities, The Press, The Internet, When Your Identity Becomes Mixed Up In The Way People Are Perceiving You.

I Want To Go Home At Night And Feel Discomfort.

My Path Was To Be An Actor And It’s Been Very Good To Me In Life. It’s Broadened My Horizons And Given Me A Lot Of Gifts.

Vengeance Is Just A Lazy Form Of Grief.

Don't Worry About Something Going Away; Enjoy It While It's Happening. And Don't Worry About Something That's Not Even Real.

You've Just Got To Have A Sense Of Respect For The Person You Have Children With. Anger Doesn't Help Anybody. Ultimately You Have To Say Forgiveness Is Important, And Honoring What You Had Together Is Important. But It's Easy To Say And Harder To Do.

Since I Have Fair Skin, I Have To Stay Out Of The Sun. I Can't Stand The Sun. I Dyed My Hair Red For A While During The 1990s But I'm Actually A Natural Blonde.

I Love Storytelling. I Love Stories, And I Love The Way In Which We Connect Through Stories.

My Parents Thought It Was Nice To Develop My Imagination, But They Never Seriously Thought That Anything Would Ever Come Of It. They Said That I Couldn't Be An Actress Because I Would Be Taller Than All My Leading Men, So I Thought I Would Be A Writer Instead.

I'd Like To Be Wise. You Have To Go Through A Lot To Get There, But I'm Willing To Go Through A Lot.

I Think If You Have Someone To Love And Someone Who Loves You, That's The Greatest Beauty Secret.

As A Goodwill Ambassador For Unifem, I've Learned That Violence Against Women Knows No Boundaries. Join Me In Helping Women Worldwide Who Have Suffered Unthinkable Violence.

Domestic Violence

I Suppose Expectations Are Strange And I Shy Away From Them. And The Whole Point Of Being An Actor Is To Connect.

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Now, After Divorce With Tom Cruise, I Can Wear Heels.

You're Either Going To Walk Through Life And Experience It Fully Or You're Going To Be A Voyeur. And I'm Not A Voyeur.

I'd Rather Walk A Tightrope Than Have My Feet On The Ground.

Feet On The Ground

I Never Like To Tell People What They Should Take.

The Journey Of Life - We All Go Through It: You Have Love, You Lose Love, You Find New Love. To Have Love Again Is A Beautiful Thing.

There's No Drugs, No Tom In A Dress, No Psychiatrists.

As An Actor You Don't Control The End Result. Because You're A Director, You Get To Control The End Result. I Think For Us, We Really Have To Show Up And Participate And Give. And Then Let Go.

I'm Not Drawn To Stories That Are Just Sort Of Fluffy. I'm Just Not, And I've Tried To, And As A Kid I Was Never Drawn To Them. I Always Chose Complicated.

If You're Going To Be With Someone, You're With Them, You're Committed To Them. I'm Not Sort Of Flitting Around.

I Just Feel Like I'm In The World Right Now. There Have Been Times When I Haven't Felt In The World, When I Haven't Cared Whether I Was Going To Be Here Or Not, So My Relationship With Being On The Earth Was Probably Not As Intense. And Right Now, There's An Intensity - I Want To Be Here.

Life Has Got All Those Twists And Turns. You've Got To Hold On Tight And Off You Go.

I Always Say, When I Work With Younger Actresses, "i'm Here." Reese Says It, Too: "we've Lived It. We Know Things. So If There's Anything You Want To Know." I'm Careful Not To Be The Preacher, Like, "now, Listen To Me!" But I Do Want To Be Available. Even In Terms Of Things Like Finances - Where Do You Learn That, If You Don't Have People You Can Ask, "hey, Can I Ask You A Question?"

I Look For Roles That Show Women As Independent, Informed, And Free To Make Their Own Decisions.

I Never Read Reviews At All. I'm Proud Of The Work I Did.

There's Just Something About Women And Shoes, It's The Luxury, It's The Femininity And It's The Attention To Detail. You Can Put A Lot Of Work Into Your Dress But If You Have The Right Shoe And Bag Then You Feel Good.

The Power Of Work, And The Power Of Creativity Can Be Your Salvation.

What's The Point Of Doing Something Good If Nobody's Watching.

If I Ever Feel That This Is Dangerous Or I'm Scared Of It, Then That Probably Draws Me More Towards It.

I Have A Passion For My Work, And That Can Seep Into You. It's Almost As If You're Drawn To It.

People Say That Jealousy Is The Greatest Enemy Of Love. They’re Wrong. The Greatest Enemy Of Love Is Boredom.

I Was Taught A Very Strong Work Ethic That Included Punctuality, Which I've Always Felt Is A Sign Of Respect For Others.

I Think We Do Need Radicals. We Need Extremists, Because That's How Change Happens.

I Believe That As Much As You Take, You Have To Give Back. It's Important Not To Focus On Yourself Too Much.

It's A Very Brave Thing To Fall In Love. You Have To Be Willing To Trust Somebody Else With Your Whole Being, And That's Very Difficult, Really Difficult And Very Brave.

Falling In Love

I Would Rather Be Tough On Myself Than Have Other People Be Tough On Me.

I Just Have A Desire Not To Judge And View Things Compassionately.

It Was Very Natural For Me To Want To Disappear Into Dark Theater, I Am Really Very Shy. That Is Something That People Never Seem To Fully Grasp Because, When You Are An Actor, You Are Meant To Be An Exhibitionist.

I Still Feel Vibrant And Alive That Way. I'm In A Marriage Where We Put An Enormous Amount Into Our Marriage. I Always Say, There's Me, There's My Husband, And Then There's The "us," The Us That We Create. That's What We Really Take Care Of. We Never, Ever Take It For Granted. We Do Everything We Can To Be Together, Not To Be Separated For Periods Of Time. We're Just A Very, Very Tight Family Unit, And We're Really Kind To Each Other. I Think It's So Underrated; People Don't Appreciate The Necessity Of That In Society Now.

You Have To Love, Without Judgment, Every Actor That You're Working With To Make Beauty.

Every Day There Is A Compromise. Living With Somebody Requires A Lot Of Understanding. But I Love Being Married. I Really Love It.

Well, I Can Wear Heels Now.

You Have To Operate From The Sense Of Everything Is New And You're Starting Again.

Dealing With These Emotions As An Actress Is Like Being A Boxer Put Into The Ring.

When You Relinquish The Desire To Control Your Future, You Can Have More Happiness.

Even As A Child I Had A Strong Relationship With Yearning And Desire. And Loss. Those Things Spoke To Me.

To Appreciate The Success You Have To Have Had The Failures. You Have To Accept That It Is A Journey And Its Not Just Tomorrow Or The Next Day Or Next Year.

I Never Wore Glasses Except When I Had To Read A Teleprompter At An Awards Show Or Drive, So I Didn't Notice Much. I Could Exist In My Head. It Was Kind Of My Escape From The World And My Protection.

I Think Actors Are Getting So Much More Power These Days, But I'm Not. I Stay Very Much Away From The Decisions, The Way In Which Things Are Orchestrated, What's Been Changed. I Just Try To Stay Completely In The Role As The Actor And As The Character.

When Someone Starts Talking To Me About The Truth, What I Hear Is What They're Telling Me About Themselves.

There Are Moments When You Feel As If You Have Been Blessed For A While, Moments When You Think This Is Perfect, Moments When You Start To Believe That Even For An Hour, Even For A Year, It Might All Happen. So I'm Determined To Keep Making It Get Better And Better.

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