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" Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. "

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" 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'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. "

" Some of my happiest moments have been dancing. "

" Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise. "

" When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. "

" People talk about 'date night,' and it is true: Sometimes you have to apply yourself, or at least apply lipstick to yourself. You kind of have to dress up, just because. You know, wear heels to your own dinner table. "

" People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world. "

" 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. "

" 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 have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time. "

" I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me. "

" The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I think it's been really stressful; it's been really scary. "

" 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. "

" 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 like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. "

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

" It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy. "

" I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse. "

" Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. "

" Fame doesn't end loneliness. "

" You have to come to work from a place of love. "

" I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development. "

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

" I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience. "

" Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time. "

" I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it. "

" You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film. "