"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."
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"I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much."
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"I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy."
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"Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis."
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"My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color."
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"By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show."
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"As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake."
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"It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want."
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"I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking."
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"Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way."
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"It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood."
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"There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself."
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"I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing."
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"When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be."
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"It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore."
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"I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no."
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"I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people."
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"I'm pretty hard on myself in general."
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"I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood"
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"I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now."
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