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" Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy. "
Say
Ride
Space
" During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first. "
Up
Me
Liberal
" Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. "
Fight
Look
Wise
" I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done. "
Feel
Career
Done
" I am attracted to the dark side of life! "
Life
Side
Dark
" I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out. "
Prepare
You
Work
" I don't watch TV. "
Watch
TV
" I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.' "
First
Role
Soap
" If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film. "
Actor
Film
You
" I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over. "
New York
Place
Clothes
" I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things. "
Want
Phoenix
Know
" I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something. "
Good
Doing
Movies
" I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA. "
Really
Want
New York
" I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best. "
Now
Love
Look
" I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director. "
Two
Great
Job
" I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time. "
I Can
Fight
While
" I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. "
Work
Disappointment
Great
" It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part. "
You
Character
Important
" I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing. "
Love
Work
Good
" Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want. "
You
Difference
Just Because
" Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type. "
Success
Fame
Difficult
" Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next. "
Resume
Cool
Like
" The Dutch are a very practical people. "
Dutch
Very
Practical
" The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney. "
Way
Only
Up
" Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with. "
Script
Something
Sort
" We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. "
Men
Because
Always
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