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“It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.”
“I particularly love Israel. I've had fantastic experiences there.”
“We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.”
“Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.”
“I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.”
“I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.”
“I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.”
“You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.”
“In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.”
“I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.”
“People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.”
“I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.”
“I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know?”
“I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.”
“I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.”
“I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.”
“I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.”
“Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.”
“People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.”
“Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.”