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I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. "Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?"

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!