As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.