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" Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. "
Time
Yourself
Creative
" Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting. "
Acting
Interesting
Walk
" A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something. "
Like
Lot
People
" And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me. "
Play
Me
Say
" Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?' "
Question
Rich
Sit
" But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone. "
Up
Just
Everyone
" But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen. "
Going
Out
Know
" Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic. "
Think
School
People
" Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid. "
Seriously
Silly
Things
" Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother. "
Always
Looks
Like
" Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl. "
Just
Want
Strong
" For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them. In my case, it was never like that. It was just about working with the people that I want to work with, and telling the stories that I want to tell, you know? "
Work
Struggle
Pressure
" Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me. "
Large
Crap
Scary
" Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap. "
You
Falling
Lose
" I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times. "
Look
Why
World
" I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof. "
Think
Am
Aloof
" I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy. "
Watch
Child
Kid
" I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny. "
Worry
Exercise
Being
" I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself. "
You
Yourself
Important
" I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. "
Think
Years
Actress
" I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive. "
Me
Want
Star
" I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that. "
Amazing
World
Beautiful
" I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting. "
You
Good
Imagination
" I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either. "
Make
Movies
Want
" I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell. "
Yourself
Writing
Work
" If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that. "
God
Good
People
" I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' "
Say
She
T-Shirt
" I grew up in a happy household. "
Grew
Up
Household
" I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me. "
Want
Baby
Know
" I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. "
Work
Funny
Talent
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