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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."

"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."

"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."

"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."

"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."

"Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."

"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers."

"I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike."

"I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing."

"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."

"I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid."

"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."
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