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Pixar has the integrity to not rush.
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I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.
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Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.
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I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.
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There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.
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There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
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Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
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I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.
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More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
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The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.
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This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.
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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.
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If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.
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I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private.
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There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.
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It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
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I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.
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My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you.
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I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.
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I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself.
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Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.
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Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes.
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I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do.
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