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

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.

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

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

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Let your power to simply “BE” inspire others to do the same.

Trust me, you see the dead walking around, you learn not to scream, laugh, or piss yourself pretty quickly.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

Stop talking to people about what you will do; show them instead what your are doing.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.