Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
I haven’t had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don’t even know about, which is really sad.
A lot of people think I’m cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don’t want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.
As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.
I don’t think it’s always good to read lots of poetry.
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don’t have.
And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn’t mean that you’re immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.
I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I’m a chameleon like that.
And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She’s a biologist – a student at UCLA – and I don’t judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.
I’ve been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.
I think it’s hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person’s God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don’t believe in God.
A lot of young poets today, from what I’ve heard and experienced, can’t get their heads past George W. Bush, and I’ve heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I’m kind of bored by it.
The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.
For most women, whether you’re an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.
Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you’re not a human being anymore.
When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, “I get rejected for a living.” And that’s true.