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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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I love bayou life.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I like to support local record stores.
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