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For me, my storyline in Big Little Lies is very complicated and nuanced. The script was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.
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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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I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
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I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.
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Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.
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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.
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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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Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.
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Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with.
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I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
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I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
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I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.