If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I can’t change the way I look nor can I sit back and let that rule my life when I know in my heart that I’m a real girl,

I feel really lucky to have the body I have; I love it!

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told stories with my body for 12 years and then came into this industry. I couldn’t...

Besides, … I ‘ m not a big pampering girl anyway.

It’s our job as filmmakers to reflect the world right now, and this year has proven that you can make these movies and make them not taste like medicine.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don’t see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it’s very easy to bore people,...

It was a combination of my painkillers (for a neck injury) and the fact that everybody was paying tribute to this incredible woman, this incredible actress, so I had to go to the physical aspect...

we were concerned we were going to sound too broad, and maybe get laughs in the wrong way. We tried to fine-tune it a little, staying kind of neutral. Part of the transformation in any...

Besides, … Im not a big pampering girl anyway.

It was a combination of my painkillers and the fact that everybody was paying tribute to this incredible woman, this incredible actress, so I had to go to the physical aspect of kissing her a**,

It’s always nerve wracking. Any red carpet is always nerve wracking.

This has been such an incredible year,

I was very scared going in, but also really excited about doing a film using my body again. I like that she never spoke. This character, she was very quiet, but she was telling her...

I like what I do, and I’m very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don’t have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely...

People said, ‘Oh, you’re doing another ugly movie,’

because thanks to women like her, I get to work and live in a very safe environment. I respect women who come from harsher landscapes, where survival is much harder than in cities, because they...

I feel so fortunate that I am in a relationship with a wonderful man. I find it incredibly unfair that because of our sexual preference, we have the rights that we have, and that, because...

Well, because I think that there is a comfort level that you have in a relationship that I think is sometimes hard for people to get around.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, ‘How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the ’60s, some bras were burned and now...

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

I sat down with Karyn and said, `You don’t understand. I don’t know these kind of movies,’

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.”