I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
I want to interact with my fans, and I want to let people know what I'm doing and stuff like that because I'd want to know.
My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.
I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.
I have been informed that he has started false allegations regarding myself and the cause of my illness. It angers me to see that my own father would stoop to such a level.
I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.
My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.
This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!
It was a sobering experience.
It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.
The biggest misconception is probably that I don't have my head in the right place.
As long as I stay honest with myself and just do the work that I am willing to do, and have been willing to do and am doing.
It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with. The challenge is accessing pain, angst, depression. . . It's more exciting because it gives me somewhere to go and allows me to tap into a part of myself that everyone can relate to.
I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.
I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, "This is one of the great ones."
I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.
I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!
I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.
My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!
