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" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
Just
Never
Thought
" All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. "
Down
You
See
" Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there. "
Experience
Back
Go
" As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain. "
Look
Good
You
" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "
Self-Confidence
Incredible
Loud
" Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.' "
Back
Go
Months
" Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for. "
Try
Table
Single
" Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. "
Acting
Out
Trying
" Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women. "
Progress
People
Women
" Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids. "
Mother
Artist
Photographer
" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "
Moment
History
Present
" I actually voted for Nader. "
Actually
Voted
" I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. "
College
School
Study
" I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world. "
Collaboration
World
People
" I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it. "
Off
Think
Years
" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "
Think
Boundaries
Myself
" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "
Carefully
Quite
Curate
" I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade. "
Realize
College
Lost
" I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout. "
Her
She
Whatever
" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "
Thing
How
People
" I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. "
Myself
Say
Feel
" I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable. "
Good
You
Uncle
" I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. "
Age
Time
World
" I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch. "
Only
Choosing
Watch
" I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. "
Child
See
Acting
" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "
Street
Like
Me
" If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love. "
Love
Yourself
Think
" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
Sugar
Your
You
" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
Actor
You
Working
" I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "
People
Up
Drag
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