I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn’t suit me.
I’m only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
I’m just a big old nerd.
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened ‘Citizen Kane’ for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.
Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it’s over-used or inappropriately used.
I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn’t pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn’t the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.
It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it’s even you?
By the time I went to Yale, I’d been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless – and a little bored – and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
As a young performer, I didn’t know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it’s not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it’s done.
I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It’s the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.
I’m human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer than I do.
The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.
You don’t realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off...
I played a girl. There’s really nothing controversial about her. She’s just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica’s character pop, I say I just play a white girl in that movie.