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" This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films. "

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" People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things. "

" Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up. "

" Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks. "

" My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times. "

" When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds. "

" My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age. "

" You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time. "

" I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch. "

" I've always been a fan of science fiction. "

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" At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet. "

" Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. "

" It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own. "

" I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. "

" I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me. "

" When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard. "

" I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked. "

" I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother. "

" People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb. "

" When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself. "

" I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself. "

" I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair. "

" I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs. "

" I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo. "

" Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. "

" I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace? "

" It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved. "

" At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic. "

" I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic. "

" There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women. "

" From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers. "