When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.

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Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

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Boredom is a great motivator.

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I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.

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Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

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Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

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It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

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One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

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