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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.
I love doing serious movies for adults.
Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
My father and my mother separated when I was two.
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.
Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.
I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
She's a (lesbian), but with a body like that she could get any man she wants.
I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.
I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.
I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.
I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.
I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.
I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."
I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play.
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."
I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.
I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."
I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.