As actresses, our schedules are really wonky and we work weird hours. For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can. I don't really watch much of any live TV anymore, and I feel like a lot of people are doing that now.
When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.
I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.
I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.
When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
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.
Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.
When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.
For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.
My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.
I'm not really an actress.
It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.
In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.
I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.
Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.
Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.
The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.
As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
