Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.
I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
I don't like to talk hypotheticals. I deal with the real life situations. I treat every day as a blessing.
You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.
The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'
All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.
In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.
I'm the least sexy person in real life.
