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I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.
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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
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I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
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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 think that I would be able to do.
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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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 amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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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. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.
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You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.
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I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
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I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
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There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
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At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.
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