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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

It's not really cool to be singled out.

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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

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I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.

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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'

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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

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Mainly I love working on good writing.

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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.

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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

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I love bayou life.

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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

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People see images now more than they see movies.

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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

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