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I've Been Fortunate In That I've Been Able To Have That Balance As An Actress To Be Able To Do The Wild, Fun Action Movies And Also Be Allowed To Do The Dramas. Hopefully, If I'm Able To Keep That Balance, I'd Love To Always Try To Do Both.

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I've Been Fortunate In That I've Been Able To Have That Balance As An Actress To Be Able To Do The Wild, Fun Action Movies And Also Be Allowed To Do The Dramas. Hopefully, If I'm Able To Keep That Balance, I'd Love To Always Try To Do Both.

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On The Superficiality Of The Industry: We Are Setting An Example Of What We Think Is Beautiful And You Really Want To Put That Much Make Up On Me?

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What Is It That Turns People Into Artists? It Often Comes From Some Kind Of Pain Or Angst, A Need To Understand Or Express Something. It Very Rarely Comes From Confidence, Being Raised By Parents Who Want To Hear What You Have To Say And Wants To Encourage You.

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.

I've Told Billy [bob Thornton] If I Ever Caught Him Cheating, I Wouldn't Kill Him Because I Love His Children And They Need A Dad. But I Would Beat Him Up. I Know Where All Of His Sports Injuries Are.

Brad [pitt] And I Have Never Wanted Our Kids To Be Actors. We've Never Talked About It. But, We Also Want Them To Be Around Film And Be A Part Of Mommy And Daddy's Life, And For It Not To Be Kept From It Either. We Just Want Them To Have A Good, Healthy Relationship With It.

People Always Slow Down For A Train Wreck. It's Like Junk Food. If You Don't Feel Good About Yourself, You Want To Read Crap About Other People, Like Gossip In High School. You Don't Understand Why It's There, But Somehow It Makes A Lot Of People Feel Better.

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 Wasn't Into Fairytales When I Was Little. I Was Of The Generation Of The Earlier Disney Films Where Many Of The Female Characters, With The Exception Of The Maleficent's, Were Not Little Girls That I Admired... The Little Princesses. They Weren't Characters That I Identified With. I Think That's Very Different Now For My Girls And More Recent Films.

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.

We Have A Choice About How We Take What Happens To Us In Our Life And Whether Or Not We Allow It To Turn Us. We Can Become Consumed By Hate And Darkness, Or We're Able To Regain Our Humanity Somehow, Or Come To Terms With Things And Learn Something About Ourselves.

I Believe The Only People That Should Be Around A Child And Raising A Child Are People Who Absolutely, 100 Percent Love That Child

We Talk About Orphanages, We Talk About Their Countries And Differences, And It’s A Source Of Excitement And Pride. I’ve Heard Maddox Explain To Zahara When They Are Talking About Pregnancy, ‘no, Zee, Remember, You Were In That Nice African Woman’s Belly. I Was In That Nice Cambodian Woman’.

We Cannot Close Ourselves Off To Information And Ignore The Fact That Millions Of People Are Out There Suffering. I Honestly Want To Help. I Don't Believe I Feel Differently From Other People. I Think We All Want Justice And Equality, A Chance For A Life With Meaning. All Of Us Would Like To Believe That If We Were In A Bad Situation Someone Would Help Us.

I Am The Kind Of Person Who Doesn't Recognize Borders. I Don't Understand Why We Think It Is Okay To Keep Someone Within One Border When They Are Unable To Feed Their Family When They Could Be Getting Help Somewhere Else. I Don't See People As Different So I Don't Understand The Idea Of Borders In This World.

I'm Shy To Call Myself A Director Still. When Someone Says, 'what Do You Do For A Living?' I Don't Know If I've Earned That.

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.

It's Better To Have Nobody, Than To Have Someone Who Is Half There, Or Doesn't Want To Be There

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

When I Was Growing Up I Never Babysat. I Was Considered To 'punk Rock' To Be Trusted With Kids.

It's A Natural Thing For A Child To Lose A Parent. I Lost My Mom Too Young But It Happened. And I'm Happy She's Out Of Pain, 'cause I Love Her And She's My Friend.

It Is Not Where You Start Out In Life That Counts The Most, It Is How You Choose To Face It.

I'm At A Strange Place I Suppose In My Life. I Think That What Happens When You Lose A Parent, Where You Lose-you Drop Into A Different Kind Of Serious.

I'm Getting A Wrinkle Above My Eyebrow Because I Just Can't Stop Lifting It, And I Love That You Know.

I'm Able To Be Very Effective Because I'm Not A Democrat, I'm Not A Republican. So, I'm Not Tied, And I'd Never Want To Be Tied To Anything, To Some Constituency That I Would Have To Answer To.

I Find Flaws Attractive. I Find Scars Attractive.

Our Family May Seem Extraordinary In Some Magazines Or Something, But At Home It's Not. We're Really Just A Very Loving Family. We're Very Close, And We Don't Read Magazines. We Just Kind Of Go To Work And Come Home. We Try To Keep A Sense Of Reality Into Their Lives. What's Truly Real, Not Hollywood Real.

It's Getting Harder To Make Decisions To Work For The Sake Of Working. Like Everybody, I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply. Sometimes Something Like The Tourist Comes Up And It's Just Fun, But It's Not As Easy To Find Projects That I Have To Do. I Have To Be Home And I Have To Do Other Things, But I Don't Have To Work As Much.

Like Every Parent, When You Start Your Family, Your Life Completely Changes. And You Completely Live For Someone Else. I Find That The Most Extraordinary Thing. Your Life Is Handed Over To Someone Else. From That Moment On, They Come First In Every Choice You Make. It's The Most Wonderful Thing.

Now They Can Do All These Magic Things With Computers. So You Think You Get To Do Something In A Movie And You Find Out You Don't Get To Really Do It.

What's Risky Is Living Your Life And Never Trying For Anything And Never Doing Something Brave And Never Getting Yourself Scared.

It's Just Person After Person In Every Different Country That Has A Life That I Can’t Even Imagine And Has Gone Through Horror That I Can’t Even Imagine.

I Was Absolutely Never Going To Get Pregnant. I Never Felt That It Was The Right Thing To Do. Now I Wouldn't Trade That Experience For The World. It Taught Me A Lot About Life, Just The Process Of It, And Now We Have Three Other Beautiful Children That Wouldn't Otherwise Be Here.

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.

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

I Am So In Love With My Brother Right Now!

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