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

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

" I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it. "

" I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam. "

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" I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not. "

" I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes. "

" It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy. "

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

" I am a feminist. "

" I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift. "

" Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise. "

" 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. "

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

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

" By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself. "

" People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love. "

" I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else. "

" I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time. "

" 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. "

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

" I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it. "