"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."

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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

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"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."

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"I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on."

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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

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"You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity."

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"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."

July

"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."

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"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."

Experience

"Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring."

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"I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day."

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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."

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"I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off."

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"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."

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"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."

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"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."

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