"I dont read the script a zillion times, I dont like to analyze things and my mind can go there very easily."
"Well, I lost my virginity in a car. But it wasn't a very nice one."
"I always envisioned her looking like a spindly blonde, but she looked like me." [On seeing her Girl, Interrupted character on screen]
"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them."
"I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too."
"I'm not someone who's generally kept the same hair color. I like to be able to change it. You know, if you can't change your surroundings, change your hair color!"
"I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!"
"I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people."
"People ask me about the 'weight' thing. And I say, 'Yeah, I lost 10 pounds of eyebrows!' Those things were so huge!"
"Sometimes I just know how to do a character but I don't know why. It's as if you know what the spirit of the person is, though not consciously, and everything else floats into you."
"I've made a conscious choice to do more romantic comedies. I want to show people I can play normal characters you'd meet on the street, not in an institution."
"I don't really take roles home with me. Though there's inevitably a little piece of something - maybe the character's spirit - that ends up lingering for a week or two until I pick up somebody else to come inside my body."
"I love hockey. If there's a game on, I will watch it. I was even on a team for, like, a minute, though it didn't occur to me until our first game, after I was suited up and had my skates on that I hadn't been on the ice in a while. So I was basically the comic relief."
"I have a tendancy to be a little bit excessive. Like the past couple of days, I've been obsessed with hot sauce. I actually contemplated carrying it around with me in my backpack".
"Home is where my mom is."
"I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat."