Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.
I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!
By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
People talk about 'date night,' and it is true: Sometimes you have to apply yourself, or at least apply lipstick to yourself. You kind of have to dress up, just because. You know, wear heels to your own dinner table.
I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.
It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
You have to pick your battles on set.
I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast.
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
