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

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" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

" I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents. "

" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "

" I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them. "

" I've always loved film more than theater. "

" I resent ever being stereotyped. "

" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

" 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.' "

" I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. "

" It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' "

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

" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves. "

" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "

" 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. "

" The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done. "

" I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. "

" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "

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" Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper. "

" I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes. "

" Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them. "

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" My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from. "