Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to moment and some of your takes will be used and some of them won't. I think there are great films you can make with bad performances, and vice versa. There are all combinations of those things. It's really down to the director what happens, I think, so that's why it's really good to work with very talented, bold directors.

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Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

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iron acting expression

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

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whatever-happens-happens turns important

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

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acting lonely writing

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

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mother baby giving

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

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capable

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

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steam fire needs

I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.

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stars kind thinking

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

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upset night reality

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

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sexy hollywood people

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

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politics soul believe

I just kind of muddled through in my 20s. I did whatever I got offered, to be honest, to pay the bills. I didn't really know what I was doing. There are some actors in their 20s who are very sure. I wasn't very sure what I was doing. I feel like I've only really just got going.

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being-honest honest kind

Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

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sexy play fun

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

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answers doe funny

Now we're in a recession, and at war, so people want to see this chihuahua movie, The Fountain. To be told to come to terms with death, that death is the road to all - it's a very intense subject. But as with movies that are very unusual, that have come to be thought of as very interesting, one finds out at the time that they were not understood. So who knows? We'll see. A lot of people really, really loved it, and a lot of people didn't get it.

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war people interesting

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

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audience like-you thinking

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

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independent different play

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing — anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

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women blow mean

I am proud of what I am. I am a librarian.

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librarian proud

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

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horse relationship people

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

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very-happy theatre thinking