When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.
You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.
In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.
Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility.
I'm just a big old nerd.
I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.
I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
