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" People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love. "

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" If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information. "

" 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. "

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

" When somebody asks me who I'm wearing, I always see myself with a BabyBjoern, carrying a little tiny Karl Lagerfeld, like, 'I'm wearing Chanel.' "

" I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer. "

" 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. "

" It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now. "

" 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. "

" I think people are made uncomfortable by uncensored expressions of emotion. "

" 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 care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance. "

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" My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind. "

" I love Berlin. "

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" 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. "

" I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. "

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