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" If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?' "

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" I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?' "

" I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies. "

" I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe. "

" In my work, I'm always striving to be as honest as possible. "

" When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power. "

" Like everybody I have many different sides. "

Different Sides

" My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy. "

" When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up. "

" For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked. "

" Sometimes I want to control things more than I'm able to. "

" I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. "

" As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play. "

" If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day. "

" Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall. "

" I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well. "

" I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know. "

" There is growth. Get out of the past. "

" When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant? "

" There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles. "

" So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer. "

" As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self. "

" I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress. "

" I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people. "

" All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more. "

" I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me. "

" The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit. "

" My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer. "

" It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain. "

" In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting. "

" Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show. "