The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.
I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.
I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.
I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.
My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.
