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Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.
Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing.
For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.
I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.
I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.
I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.
I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.
Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.
The only way I can feel comfortable being an actor is if I can find stories that I believe are important to be shared.
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
When I was younger, watching movies, it felt like everything was glossy and beautiful, and I didn't really relate to it.
When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.
I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.
I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.
I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.
When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'
I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.
More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.
My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.
I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out.
If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.
I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.
It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.
I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.
I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.
Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.
I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.
Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.
A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.
I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.
There isn't anyone in my life who is going to get upset about how much travelling I have to do or whether or not I'm available for drinks that night.
Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.
I'm trying to find new ways to entertain myself because, if my whole world is doing interviews, I might as well put them in places I've wanted to see.
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.
The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
You know how it is when you put on your best friend's shirt. You feel weird, even if everyone tells you that it looks good. You know that it isn't right.
I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.
I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.