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" I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "

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" It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets. "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "

" I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "

" People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!' "

" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "

" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "

" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "

" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "

" I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college. "

" I actually voted for Nader. "

" Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. "

" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "

" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "

" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

" I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise. "

" Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written. "

" I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. "

" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "

" The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. "

" I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't. "

" I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age. "

" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "

" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "

" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "

" I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "

" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "

" I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout. "

" I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work. "