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Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.
I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.
There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.
I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.
People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.
I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.
Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.
But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.
I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.
If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.
I do things very impulsively; I don't really like to plan things at all. If I am passionate about something then I will do it.
I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.
I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.
I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
Because the Pang brothers are twins, they would rotate days on set. One of them would be editing, and one of them would be shooting.
I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.
Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.
I'm about to play an emaciated pregnant vampire, so I've stopped using as much butter as Paula Deen - just until 'Breaking Dawn' is over.
It's this weird thing that I always feel like I have to gauge in myself, like, "Don't come on too strong because you won't get your way."
Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.
Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.
I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.
I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.
I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'
People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.
People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.
A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.
I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .
I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.
I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie.
I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.