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" I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices. "

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

" I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess. "

" I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. "

" If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information. "

" 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. "

" I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me. "

" It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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