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" My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school. "

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" It's only artists who can help artists. "

" 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. "

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

" My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure. "

" I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of. "

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" I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' "

" I'm so used to naysayers. "

" 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. "

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

" Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11. "

" Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out. "

" I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do. "

" My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters. "

" In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement. "

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

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

" I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating. "

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

" Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles. "

" I actually would not want the pressure of a lead in a series. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one. "

" I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often. "

" Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. "

" 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. "