I Don't Need A Reason To Kill

I Hope My Talent Has Something To Do With It. I Just Think This Business Is So Crazy. I Obviously Do The Best I Can, And The Directors I Admire See Something In Me. But This Is A Strange Business, And There Are People Who Are Incredibly Talented Who Never Make It, Who Never Get These Opportunities. So That's Why I Say I'm Lucky. I Don't Feel That I'm Not Talented - I Think I Am Talented - But I Also Think I'm Very Lucky.

I Think Robert Altman Could See Things In Me That I Didn't Know I Possessed, Which Is Really Exciting. He Also Instilled A Tremendous Amount Of Confidence, Because He Would Say Things Like, "these Are The Bare Bones, But I Want You To Go Fill It Out. You Find The Character. You Bring It To Me. You Write Whatever You Want." And If You Had An Idea, He Wouldn't Want To Hear About It. He's Want You To Show It To Him.

I Used To Hang Out By The Food Table At Parties Because You Don't Have To Talk To Anybody. If You Do Then You Can Talk About The Food.

Acting For Kids Is Like Playing House, You Know? But Growing Up In Hollywood, It Just Made It Seem Possible.

Even When You Think You Can Detach Yourself From The Characters, You Don't. Because You're Spending So Much Time Trying To Realize This Person And Make Them Real That They Do Infect You, In A Way. And You Do Take Them Home And Live With Them, Even If You Think You're Turning The Character Off. But In Order To Pull Off A Role Convincingly, You Wind Up Thinking About That Person All The Time, And It Does Sort Of Creep Into You. And Then There Are Things That You'll Respond To, Or React To In A Very Different Way Than You Would Normally.