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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.

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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.

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Loss Of A Child

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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 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.

Like Every Mother, My Wish - Every Birthday - Is For My Children To Stay Healthy (and) For My Family To Remain Healthy.

If Anybody Comes Into My Home And Tries To Hurt My Kids, I've No Problem Shooting Them... I Bought Original, Real Guns Of The Type We Used In Tomb Raider For Security. Brad And I Are Not Against Having A Gun In The House, And We Do Have One. And Yes, I'd Be Able To Use It If I Had To.

I Wonder Why Guys Mistreat And Disrespect Girls. But Then They Expect Life To Hand Them A Good Woman When They're Older And Ready To Settle Down?

I Love Great Journalism. I Appreciate It. I Love Good News Stories. I Love Great Books. I Love Great Articles. I Appreciate Them So Much, And They've Been Part Of My Education As A Woman.

I Learned A Lot From Clint [eastwood], Who's An Extremely Economic Director. I Learned A Lot From Michael Winterbottom, Who Really Gave A Lot Of Trust In The Actors And Allowed Them To Live In The Space Instead Of Trying To Manipulate And Make It Too Set And Too Staged. Working With [robert] De Niro Taught Me A Lot Of Being An Actors' Director And What That Is. I've Learned A Lot From Pretty Much Everybody. Hopefully I've Picked Up Something From Everybody I've Worked With.

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.

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.

The Mind Wants To Forget Because It Weighs So Much On The Heart And Soul. I Am Tired Of Crying And Feeling So Helpless. I Want To Breathe Again -just For A Little While.

I See Myself As Mom First. I'm So Lucky To Have That Role In Life. The World Can Like Me, Hate Me Or Fall Apart Around Me And At Least I Wake Up With My Kids And I'm Happy.

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

We Did Work Together Surprisingly Well, More Than I Thought We Would, Because I Didn't Know Before We Met If We Would Actually Work Together Really Well, And We Had A Great Time.

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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.

First Thing In The Morning, We're Really Tired, And We Look At Each Other And We Wonder, 'are We Ever Going To Get Sleep?' And Yet, It Doesn't Matter If You Don't Get Sleep. It's An Honor To Take Care Of Them.

I Think I'll Be Working A Lot Less As I Get Older

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.

I Dropped My Pants In A Tattoo Parlor In Amsterdam. I Woke Up In A Waterbed With This Funky-looking Dragon With A Blue Tongue On My Hip. I Realized I Made A Mistake, So A Few Months Later I Got A Cross To Cover It. When My Pants Hang Low, It Looks Like I'm Wearing A Dagger!

I Would Start Drinking Something Terrible If I Were In A Situation Where I Was Surrounded By Lies Or Quiet Or Secrets. It's Just Not A Real Life.

That Just Sounds So Funny, A-list. Really, I'm A Mom, And That's How I'm Going To Be All My Life.

I'm Just Glad I Was Able To Return To Some Of That Innocence And Beauty I Had As A Child When I Started My Own Family, And My Children Brought Me Back Some Of That Spirit.

I Think It's Easier To Play When You Do Have A Balanced Home. I Think If I Did Have Alcoholism In My Personal Life, Or My Mother, Or Somebody Close To Me, It Might Have Been Much More Uncomfortable To Get In There.

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.

I Entered This Business Before I Had Focus And Purpose In My Life. I Was Very Unhappy, Very Unhealthy, And When I Sat Down For An Interview, I Didn't Know Why. I Felt Like I Didn't Have Anything To Share. It Was A Very Empty Time.

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

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.

I Became An Actress Because My Mom Wanted Me To Become An Actress. It Took Me Until My Mid-30s To Realize I Actually Didn’t. I Actually Wanted To Write And Direct And Be More Involved In Politics And Humanitarian Issues.

It's The Greatest Thing That Ever Happened In My Life, My Son.

I Went Through A Period When I Felt My Film Characters Were Having More Fun Than I Was. It Might Partly Explain Why I Ended Up Tattooed Or Doing Certain Extreme Things In My Life.

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

I Went Through What I Imagine Thousands Of Other Women Have Felt. I Told Myself To Stay Calm, To Be Strong, And That I Had No Reason To Think I Wouldn't Live To See My Children Grow Up And To Meet My Grandchildren.

There Doesn't Need To Be A God For Me.

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

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