I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.