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"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."
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"Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it."

"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."

"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."

"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"

"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."

"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it."

"I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing."

"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."
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"You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me."


"But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me."


"I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it."


"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."


"Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie."


"I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself."


"It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors."
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