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

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" You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes. "

" I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things. "

" I'm just a big old nerd. "

" 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. "

" Some of my happiest moments have been dancing. "

" There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you. "

" I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess. "

" I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously. "

" The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th. "

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

" 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. "

" Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. "

" I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually. "

" I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique. "

" 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. "

" As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done. "

" I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. "

" 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. "

" I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging. "

" I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true. "

" I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. "

" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "

" 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. "

" Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular. "

" When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that. "

" I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. "

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

" I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad. "

" I think 'Breaking Bad' is incredible. "