1. Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. 2. The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
3. You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says: "Keep going". Start by starting.
5. It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
6. Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
8. I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
9. Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
10. I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
12. My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
13. I need to go where people are serious about acting.
15. If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
16. Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
18. I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
19. I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
21. I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
23. I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
24. All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
25. America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
27. I can't stand most things that I see.
28. I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
30. I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
32. It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
33. People say: "When you have children, everything changes". But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
34. Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
36. There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
38. All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
39. For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
40. Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
42. I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
44. I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
46. I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
47. I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
48. I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
50. I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
51. I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.
53. I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
55. My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
56. Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
58. The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
59. The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
60. The work will stand, no matter what.
62. There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
63. We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
65. You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
66. I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
68. This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
69. I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.
71. (Entertainment Tonight 1981) I had it (smoking), it stinks.
72. I'm looking forward to bigger parts in the future, but I'm not doing soft-core scripts where the character emerges in half-light, half-dressed.
74. (on her view of acting back in college) I thought it was really fun, you've got to understand, but I didn't think it was a serious way to conduct your life. You know, I had a sense of mission. I was a true child of the '60s.
75. I love doing comedy, but people just don't give me enough of a chance. It's one of the reasons I enjoy "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004) so much. It's because I actually get a chance to be funny.
77. Someone once said that sometimes studio heads don't want to cast films with the image of their first wife in the role. It's just rather unpleasant for them. So they like the idea of the new one.
79. I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
80. (on winning the 1983 Best Actress Oscar for "Sophie's Choice" 1982) Oh boy, no matter how much you try to imagine what this is like, it's just so incredibly thrilling right down your toes.
82. Sometimes under-preparation is very good, because it instills fear and fear is galvanizing. It makes you break out of yourself. If you're prepared, then you think you're ready, and if you think you're ready, then you're not ready.
84. (on winning a Golden Globe for "Adaptation" 2002) My God, I was settling in for a long winter's nap. I've been nominated, like 789 times, but it hasn't been since the "Mesozoic Era" that I've actually won.
86. (on Dustin Hoffman) He's energized and the greatest combination of the generous and the selfish that ever lived. He wants to be the greatest actor who ever was.
88. (on life as a young actress) When I was 20 I busked to afford accommodation. One night I hadn't earned enough, I actually slept in the open in Green Park (in London). The view was of the Ritz Hotel and I vowed I'd stay there one day. And I have.
91. It's a lesson I learned in drama school: the teacher asks: "How do you be the queen?" And everybody says: "Oh it's about posture and authority." And they said: "no, it's about how the air in the room shifts when you walk in. And that's everyone else's work".
93. I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
94. I mean, come on; when you have people writing these things, that you're the greatest thing that ever ate scenery, you're dead. You're fucking dead. How can you even presume to begin a new character? It's a killer.
97. (when accepting Emmy for "Angels in America" 2003) There are some days when even I think I'm overrated, but not today.
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