"For people whose job it is to make sure we make money, there's a lot of pressure."
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"'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation."
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"My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age."
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"The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George."
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"I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera."
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"There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do."
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"I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication."
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"My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming."
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"If a guy was like, 'Let me serenade you,' and it was bad, and I had to lie about it - can't have it."
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"I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends."
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"Similarly, I think I'm lucky that I've never had a crisis about whether the only reason I'm successful is because I'm crazy hot. It's not something that crosses my mind."
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"I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails."
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"As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life."
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"I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way."
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"R.Pattz fever is a lot louder than George Clooney fever. The younger girls are a little louder."
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"I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it."
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"Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage"
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"One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality."
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"I feel like I've got it together when things are going well with my family."
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