We’ve come a long way, and changing a law is really important. What I’ve realized is laws change, but you also have to change how people think. And that takes time.

That’s the best I’ve had in years!

No matter how sexual this character is and how comfortable she is with her sexuality, we obviously knew that we couldn’t go as far with the outfits as Peter had designed for her. We still...

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

It was a very foreign genre to me,

Whether it ‘ s a real person or not, is irrelevant, … The human condition is the same.

This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for ‘Monster.

When they watch a movie and they know that you’re in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

There are these moments when you can’t back down.

Some days I look in the mirror and feel hot. Other days I say, ‘I’ve got back fat’.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with...

I think people have forgotten what actors do,

There were 400 of them, and they actually worked in the mine where this had happened,

She loved it. She said it was the best she’s had all year.

She’s just kind of popped her head back into her shell, but I never thought of her as anything other than just a very normal girl who was, I thought, quite pretty.

I mean, I’m new but I’ve always been very interested in film making process and I’ve been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me...

I didn’t know about the comic and I’m not really very familiar with that genre, so it was a huge challenge for me.

It’s a landmark case, and it changed the face of sexual harassment laws in corporate America,

She’s not based on anybody real. The events of the story are based on real events.

Yet there’s a hunger in me still. I’m like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

We didn’t want them to watch the film and say, ‘Oh, God, that’s me. Now everybody knows that about me.’ We wanted them to say, ‘That reflects my life, but it’s not me.’

If people, critics respond to the film there, it starts a nice little wave of chat, which for a movie like ‘North Country’ is really important. It’s one of those films that travels by word...

Hey, I’m a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn’t necessarily given to me, and that people didn’t necessarily...

She made that accent famous in ‘Fargo,’ … But we agreed to tone it down a little – so we didn’t get laughs.

“He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben – he was my first dry hump.”

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I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we...

She’s very private, but she was incredibly helpful to me,

I was a little mad at myself because I feel very fortunate,

They would yell everything you saw in the movie and then they’d look back at Woody and go, ‘Yeah, Woody, you’re the man! We love you Woody!’ and then they’d turn back to me, ‘Take...

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody’s woman.

The celebrity status in Hollywood has gotten really out of control,

I just went through that, so for me to be thinking about it again would just seem very selfish,

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small...

He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben – he was my first dry hump.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady....

Elizabethtown.

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

I’m going to kiss your (butt) too – but literally.

It’s a horrid, horrid smell and you kind of get used to it after a while, but the first time we went in there, it was really noisy and we were a little concerned about...

You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody’s gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it...

I was never just interested in playing that one note,

You can’t control those things. When they happen, it’s great, but if you put too much emphasis on that, you lose track of what you’re supposed to be doing and the work itself.

I am not for the death penalty and so making this film did not change my point of view. I think it made me more aware of how ineffective it is.

Action films have been very testosterone-driven, not that that’s a bad thing. But there is an interesting sexuality that I don’t think has been that well explored in that action world, which is something women...

This happens everywhere, … It ‘ s not like something that happened in the sixties, it ‘ s a lot more recent than that.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know,...