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" Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology. "

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" Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. "

" I am a feminist. "

" I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast. "

" I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. "

" As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done. "

" If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method. "

" I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it. "

" I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse. "

" There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you. "

" I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again. "

" People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries. "

" Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used. "

" I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime. "

" However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable. "

" I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. "

" What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting. "

" I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know? "

" We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. "

" I think it's important to never play 'crazy' - you have to know what kind of crazy you're playing. "

" My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind. "

" Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world. "

" Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. "

" I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. "

" The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase. "

" The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th. "

" Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive. "

" When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. "

" I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique. "

" I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging. "

" I do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged. "