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" I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained! "

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" I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit. "

" There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential. "

" I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him. "

" It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now. "

" I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being. "

" People talk about 'date night,' and it is true: Sometimes you have to apply yourself, or at least apply lipstick to yourself. You kind of have to dress up, just because. You know, wear heels to your own dinner table. "

" On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little bit more in advance. "

" I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. "

" I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. "

" I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things. "

" I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. "

" You have to come to work from a place of love. "

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

" Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. "

" Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable. "

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

" I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not. "

" Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. "

" I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5. "

" Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake. "

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

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

" I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes. "

" I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there. "

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

" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "

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

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

" I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it. "

" I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually. "