I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

You can't get work without working.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.