I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.