For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.
Lizzy CaplanThere's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.
Lizzy CaplanI think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.
Lizzy CaplanThere are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.
Lizzy CaplanOn True Blood โ I've never told anybody thisโbut I was so nervous and I was so drunk that after I shot the scene I was going up to the crew members โ and I had just met all these people the day before โ and I was going up to all of them like, 'You got a boner! You do! You've got one!' It was horrible. Horrible!
Lizzy Caplan