I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

Not yet hardened, many young die good.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

The person is being confrontational.