This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

Any obsession is dangerous.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

I don't come from money.

I don't have life rage anymore.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

I eat crap.

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.