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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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