People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.
I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.
I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.
'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.
'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
