I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.
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I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
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I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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You do a movie if it’s good and if you want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you’re gonna say them. You can’t strategize.
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I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.
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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
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It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they – at least the ones that I know personally – have been waiting for something that doesn’t completely insult them.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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.
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I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
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