"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."

Actor, Celebrity

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"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."

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"I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling."

Feelings

"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."

Beauty

"My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act."

Father

"It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that."

Want

"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."

Beauty

"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive."

Performance

"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."

Denial

"I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place."

America

"Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business."

Business

"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."

Act

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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

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