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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.
I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."
You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.
I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .
What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.
I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.
I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.
When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.
I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.
A woman needs her privacy while drinking a dirty Belvedere martini on the rocks with a splash of Tabasco.
I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.
I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'
People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.
I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.
My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.
But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.
At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.
The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].
The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.
My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.
I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.
I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.
I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.