I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.
I am a feminist. And I'm so glad that Lena Dunham exists, because she is one too, and she's quite vocal about it. Yes, women have more freedom and more influence than ever, but it's hardly equal. It's just not.
I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off.
Money or no money, acting is my calling.
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.
It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she's also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody counter.
I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, I say I just play a white girl in that movie.
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.
I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.
Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.
I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?
Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.
I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.
I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.
Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.
