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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
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I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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My parents didn't have any money.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.