“I love old music, old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.”
“I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing.”
“I don’t want to go to another rollercoaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I’ll go to Magic Mountain. I’m really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkovichs. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that’s what I’m passionate about.”
“I’m blessed with a lot of energy and stamina. I can’t stand sitting still. I went to a spa once with my mom and I was like, “Get me out of here!”.”
“For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.”
“I don’t really like to go out very much. I’m not scandalous. I’m not, like, in this to be famous. I also find it so embarrassing when you read about people and it’s like they were so trashed at Skybar and stumbling around. I don’t want to be that person. That’s just so embarrassing to have that written about you.”
“I’m the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I’m really surprised if a movie I like does well.”
“For a while I was like, “Oh my God, anyone that would release an album as an actor is the biggest fool ever”, but I happened to have sung all my life before I was an actor. Why are musicians allowed to become actors? No one ever gives them flack for that.”
“As a child my best friends were tropical fish. At elementary school I was a bit of a troublemaker, I’d end up getting sent to the principal’s office. There was a big fish tank there. I spent so much time in that office I got to know those fish real well.”
“I can do the Chipmunk voice and impressions of Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds and Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. I could probably do the whole Von Trapp family.”
“It’s an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you’re going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.”
“I was labeled a ‘theatre type’ in high school, which made it hard to fit in and feel part of things.”
“People say: “Oh yeah, jobs for the boys”. I wish. You’ve got to fight even harder with a family like mine.”
“You have to keep reminding yourself it’s not about money, because there is a lot of money to be made in this business if you’re willing to do whatever. But that’s not what I’m thinking about. I continue only to take movies because I love the script and because I really want to do it.”
“I don’t think I’m very much like anyone else, really. I’m sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don’t see anybody else and go, “Damn, they stole my thing”. I’m me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.”
“I don’t want to be a babe. I don’t want vanity to ever get in the way, because I think to maintain that, you have to be aware of yourself all the time, and that gets in the way of acting. My job’s not to be the beautiful person. My job is to be the best actor I can be.”
“I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.”
“I just try my best to make the character the best I can and make it the most interesting and also entertaining and also true to the book that I can.”
“It’s a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.”
“I just find that, part of my attraction to it is I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.”
“The first album I ever got was “Like a Virgin”. It was during the Iran Contra conflict-I thought she was saying, “Like a Persian”.”
“Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That’s just the greatest feeling.”
“I love Christmas and I really got in to the spirit of it – early on in the year usually. Maybe June, July, perhaps May or April, I would begin to talk about what we would do on Christmas.”
“I believed in Santa Claus until I was like 14.”