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.

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.

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.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

Leverage on your self-worth and convert it into net worth.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.