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" People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired. "

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" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history. "

" I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately. "

" I try to do things I love or care about for some reason. "

" For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow. "

" I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. "

" Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on. "

" My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. "

" I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.' "

" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

" I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. "

" I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me. "

" I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America. "

" I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do. "

" Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. "

" David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect. "

" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "

" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "

" It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one. "

" You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?' "

" Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies. "

" We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. "

" There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. "

" Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for. "

" At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that. "

" Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true. "

" To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it. "

" I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. "

" Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded. "