I'm clean and sober.

I've always dated hunks.

I work out. I eat great. I'm in shape.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

I found out my limit. I'm not a singer and a dancer.

I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.

I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.

My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I'd fake I was sick, and she'd fake believing me.

I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

Once you have been hot and cold, you get real appreciative when you got a place to go every day with decent material, a paycheck to come in, and nice people to work with.

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.

I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.

When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

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