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American - Actress Born: December 12, 1970

I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.

Jennifer Connelly

Me Father People Place

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

Jennifer Connelly

Life Happy Live Movies

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

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Funny Age You Yourself

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

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Me Happy Person Always

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

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You Someone Leave Predict

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

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Time Behavior My Own Perfect

Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

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Someone Comfortable Once Reserved

I would not want to be on a cruise ship. Some ferry crossings I'm not too thrilled about.

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Ship Want Some About

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

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Life My Life Stay Focused Fantasy

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

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Beautiful Loved Thought Moving

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Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

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Work Me Mother World

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

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Reading Way Choices Talking

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

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Work Trust You People

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

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Home World Looking Window

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

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Relationship People Feel Feeling

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

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Nature Growing Up Being Some

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

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Life Work Time My Life

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.

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Research Know Try Want

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

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Work Trust You End

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.

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Water Motorcycle Great Dark

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

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Good Good Things Know Strange

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.

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Good Time Great Research

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

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You People Win Grow

When it's good it's great, it's really great.

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Good Great Really

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

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Family Night Fun Live

I'll probably at some point get involved in Instagram and things like that because I feel it's reality, and it's the way people communicate.

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People Feel Reality Way

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