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" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "

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" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "

" It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self. "

" I actually voted for Nader. "

" The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. "

" I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. "

" Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for. "

" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "

" I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really. "

" Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids. "

" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "

" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties. "

" As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain. "

" My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after. "

" I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more. "

" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "

" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "

" I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. "

" My mom could be pretty strict. "

" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "

" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "

" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "

" I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "

" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "

" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "

" It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure. "

" I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world. "

" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "