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

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" It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.' "

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

" I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should. "

" Mainly I love working on good writing. "

" I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role. "

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

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

" 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 thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear. "

" 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. "

" We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants. "

" As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something. "

" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "

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

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

" I like to support local record stores. "

" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "

" Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy. "

" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "

" It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life. "

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

" What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know! "

" Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director. "

" I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing. "