My mother said, "Pack your bags and leave." And my father said, "I've already paid for a year and a half - why don't you stay and get the degree?" And I said, "That's a good idea, because then I can at least run a theater even though I have no talent, and I'll never be an actor." It's my fault that I believed them.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.