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For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10,

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.

I'd always find the positive in someone.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

I feel my best when I'm happy.

I, myself, am strange and unusual

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I've fucking thought of it.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.

Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

I've recommended girls for jobs that I had a different part in, and agents have been like, "No, don't ... "It's so surprising to me.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

I'm not into wrinkles.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.

You can't pay enough money to ... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.

It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.