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" I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time. "

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" 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 just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts. "

" Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful. "

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

" 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. "

" I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. "

" Fame doesn't end loneliness. "

" 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. "

" When somebody asks me who I'm wearing, I always see myself with a BabyBjoern, carrying a little tiny Karl Lagerfeld, like, 'I'm wearing Chanel.' "

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

" I was an actor who happened to be a kid. "

" You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film. "

" 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 think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off. "

" Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. "

" I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously. "

" I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. "

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

" I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer. "

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

" 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. "

" Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise. "

" I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true. "

" If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it. "

" I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. "

" I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. "

" 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. "

" It's OK to want to look and feel your best. It's OK to work at being attractive, whatever that means to you. And it's also OK to not expect to be defined by that. It's OK to be powerful in every way: to be big, to take up space. To breathe and thrive. "

" Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. "

" You have to pick your battles on set. "