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You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it requires to make a film. And there's people who are in control of how you look, what your performance is, what takes are used, what - you're only in control of how you say no.
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I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.
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There is something sexy about a computer nerd.
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I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.
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Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
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I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.
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You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.
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There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
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To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize. So if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do. When I open projects, maybe something will appeal to me. I think I'm not opening them because I don't want anything to appeal to me right now.
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I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.
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I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.
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I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who's younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail.
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Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.
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Every movie is a love story.
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I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
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I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.
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I'm a good actress. That's why you know me as likable.
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I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
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I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.
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There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.
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At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.
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If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
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To sit with George Clooney and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie "Gravity".