I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I’m out in an open field, except I’m in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.
One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can’t do anything to your performance once you’ve laid it on film.
You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.
I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock ‘n’ roll, but I’d never do any of it in flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe it’s a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It’s everything I can do not to leave the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn’t make for an ideal religious follower.
Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.
I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
The feminist movement is often clouded with Gloria Steinem’s perspective, but I feel like denying women their sexuality is just as chauvinistic.
It’s my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
I have a ’68 Mustang, which is my baby. I’ve had her for about six years, which is kind of a miracle, considering how many times she’s been stolen.
I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy’s girl.
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don’t try to bring other pieces of movies with me. I think that finding a character, relating to her and making her as real as possible means forgetting all of that stuff and just trying to find the truth, in that particular character’s words.
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I’ve always challenged the standards set before me.
If you’ve been seeing someone for a short while and the “relationship” winds itself down mutually but not explicitly, no postmortem is necessary. But a real relationship should have a real ending.
If you’re seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute – and that’s it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.
I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance.
Injustice can never be stood for.
I think there’s an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the ‘Saw’ movies.
Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I’m 25 in the rest of the world, but I’m about 48 in actress years. I’m just around the corner from my midlife crisis.