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" My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production. "

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" Fame doesn't end loneliness. "

" 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 wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast. "

" You have to pick your battles on set. "

" 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. "

" My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. "

" Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world. "

" I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again. "

" Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable. "

" 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. "

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

" Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely. "

" I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know. "

" I do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged. "

" When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility. "

" I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. "

" I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. "

" Narciso Rodriguez was my first fashion big brother. He made my wedding dress, which was wonderful. "

" I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. "

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

" I love Berlin. "

" On a film you can really get away with learning the scene the night before and that's often just not possible with TV, so you have to be a little bit more prepared a little bit more in advance. "

" 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. "

" There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential. "

" We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. "

" I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring. "