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"I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them."
"I think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity over a role in which they have to look like a moron. They're worried they'll damage their sex appeal. Thankfully, I have no problem looking like a moron!"
"Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting."
"There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else."
"There are some things that have to wait and that can't just happen right now."
"I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies."
"It's nice to find creative outlets on a daily basis."
"In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand."
"I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies."
"In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad."
"I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun."
"You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't."
"My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it."
"Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her."
"My favorite thing about movies is the ending and so all my favorite movies have really great endings."
"I'm not there to be the token sexy girl. I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off. It's nice that those characters I've played feel uncomfortable as well because it's so much more realistic."
"Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things."
"As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired."
"I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff."
"Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it."