My advice is to make acting your second career choice

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."