"What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy."
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"If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it's getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut."
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"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it."
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"I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you."
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"I don't like going out that much. I'm kind of an old lady. After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch. Like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on.""
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"I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head."
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"I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to."
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"I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do."
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"Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?"
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"More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women."
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"I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not."
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"I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!"
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"You're not gonna give somebody more money if they don't ask for it."
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"Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete."
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"Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men."
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"Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head."
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"When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other."
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"Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'"
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"I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me."
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"Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control."
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