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" Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. "

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" I thrive on adversity. "

" I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of. "

" When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up. "

" Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out. "

" I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' "

" I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one. "

" I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do. "

" I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. "

" Some people can't connect with their own emotions. "

" The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die. "

" I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens. "

" In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement. "

" As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play. "

" My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school. "

" My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters. "

" There is growth. Get out of the past. "

" I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal. "

" When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well. "

" I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "

" It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain. "

" I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive. "

" Acting is me, but music is even more me. It's everything. "

" I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me. "

" Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall. "

" I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet. "

" All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. "

" In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength. "

" The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that. "

" It's not my nature to dominate and bully. "

" I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing. "