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" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "

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" People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time. "

" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "

" I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life. "

" I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York. "

" There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together. "

" With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. "

" But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake. "

" It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it. "

" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "

" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "

" I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared. "

" I love 'Fishing With John' so much. "

" I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.' "

" Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange. "

" I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff. "

" I'm an actor, so I like costumes. "

" My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up. "

" They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore. "

" I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. "

" I like to support local record stores. "

" I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical. "

" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "

" I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe. "

" There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months. "

" I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. "

" I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious. "

" You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that. "

" It's not really cool to be singled out. "

" We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!' "

" There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that. "