I hate red carpet photographs!
It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'
When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
New York vintage is too expensive!
The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.
What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
You lose like five pounds immediately, and your face is glowing and gorgeous!
The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.
I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse.
When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.
I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
I was always in and out of school. What I learned in high school is that female friendships are so much more important than worrying about having a boyfriend or looking good or things like that. I had such a good girlfriend growing up that we didn't need anything. We had such a creative world of our own imagination together. For me, if I have a child, I would say, "I hope you find a best friend that makes it so you don't really need much but each other." Learning about that type of friendship and trust is one of the best things I ever got out of school.
As an actress, there's a lot of waiting. You wait for a script to come in that you want to do. You get to a point where you decide that if you want good things to be made, you're going to have to start making them yourself as an actress. You can't just wait around for it. But you can also just enjoy the breaks, and use them to kind of refuel. I've been working so long at this point that I don't mind the breaks. I think they make me better, actually.
I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.
To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.
A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.
It's nice when the movie is not on your shoulders, too. It's fun to do a smaller part sometimes.
I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.
I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.
I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.
Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an actress and it's a reason why I feel brave to do a film like Melancholia. So, to me she's the ultimate.
