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

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" Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. "

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

" 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? "

" I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy. "

" We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock! "

" 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. "

" I only wear SPF if I'm going to the beach. "

" I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against 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. "

" Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out. "

" Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock. "

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

" I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. "

" As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform. "

" Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work. "

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

" It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket. "

" The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time - Tom Cruise - coming out against anti-depressants and Ritalin... they still brutalize him. "

" I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "

" The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world. "

" I thrive on adversity. "

" What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go. "

" 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. "

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

" Some people can't connect with their own emotions. "

" My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "