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I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I\'ve been really, really lucky. I\'m aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I\'ve worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I\'m really grateful.

I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.

We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.

You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

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The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

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.

I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you.

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Acting is not about being someone different. It\'s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

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.

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.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

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Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time