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You Have To Learn To Deal With Your Own, For Want Of A Better Word, Insecurities, Fears. They Don't Go Away. And That's Normal. It's Human. You Don't Ever Really Want To Lose That. What You Want To Do Is Learn To Manage It And To Work With Yourself. But There's A Part Of You That Has Anticipation And Fear. And So The Important Thing To Know Is That There's Nothing Wrong With That And That That's Normal. You Have To Learn How To Deal With It, Certainly, But It Doesn't Keep You From Doing It. And That Doesn't Go Away Ever.

I Fall In Love With All The People I'm Working With, Women, Directors, Everybody. As Actors, That's Actually One Of The Real Pleasures Of The Work. You Have This Weird Opportunity To Get Unnaturally Close To People Very Quickly.

It Used To Be The One Or The Other, Right? You Were The 'bad Girl' Or The 'good Girl' Or The 'bad Mother' Or The 'good Mother,' 'the Horrible Businesswoman Who Eschewed Her Children' Or 'the Earth Mother Who Was Happy To Be At Home Baking Pies,' All Of That Stuff That We Sort Of Knew Was A Lie.

I Don't See Myself As Competing With Other Actresses. I Mean, I Went Through A Time When I Was In New York, And I Was Going To Lots Of Auditions And Trying To Get Parts, But Even Then, You're Not Really Competing With The Other Actresses. There Is A Competition Going On, But It's Not Like Something You Can Win In That Way.

Acting Is Not About Being Famous, It's About Exploring The Human Soul.