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I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well.
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I like my life. It's good.
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Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
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It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.
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I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
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I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
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A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
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I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.
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I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.
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I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.
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I'm certainly not a prude.
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There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.
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Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
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I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.