I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite.
I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit. There wasn't a ton of pushback about it.
Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.
When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my résumé with everything I had ever done-ice-skate, carry a tune.
I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.
I like doing horror films. I think it's helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry for so long and do ridiculous things in front of strangers, you sort of break down any barriers, you can't be embarrassed.
I’ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.
I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.
In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.