I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

I've quoted Lost in America several times.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

You have to like the characters you play.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.

We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.