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The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

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To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

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I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

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Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

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You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and if you were a female they put you into a skirt. And you had a pocketbook, usually a shoulder bag.

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People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

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An actor's life is fairly lonely.

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I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

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I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 14th, 1960

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