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" At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them. "

" Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange. "

" I came out of the womb waving red lipstick. "

" I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do. "

" I don't care what people say! Please get that straight. I really don't. Because I can't. "

" I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie. "

" If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better. "

" I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany. "

" I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die. "

" I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No. "

" I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun. "

" I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. "

" I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people. "

" I'm not interested in worrying in if I make people uncomfortable. I'm interested in stopping women and children dying - that's what I'm interested in. "

" I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally. "

" I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry. "

" I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing. "

" I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do. "

" I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery. "

Critical Thinking

" I really believe in being egalitarian. "

" I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.' "

" I think gay marriage should be the national law. "

" I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome. "

" It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?' "

" It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while. "

" I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything. "

" I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time. "

" I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on. "

" I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics. "

" I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while. "

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