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"I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to."
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"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
Art
"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
Feelings
"It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good."
Needs
"So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career."
Career
"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
Work
"When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor."
People
"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."
Actor
"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
Truth
"With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling."
Character
"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
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"I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else."
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"Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie."
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"Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar."
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"I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That."
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"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
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"I'm a teen-age bride."
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"Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s."
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"I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type."
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"Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them."
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"I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film."
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