You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?