 Being is like pretending. |
| I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. |
| When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. |
| 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 hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. |
| I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. |
| 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. |
| The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. |
| 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. |
| I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. |
| The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. |
| 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. |
| My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. |
| I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. |
| I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. |
| We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. |
| It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. |
| 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. |
| Acting is what happens on the way. |
| 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. |
