It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.