In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.
Actors, they come and go, you know.
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.
At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.
I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.
I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.