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Quotes
 Just
because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a
father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my
father.
Being
a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
How
can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us
out. We have specially prepared meals.
It's
been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trend setting, because the
fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all,
give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to
125 pounds.
This
is what I've waited for my whole life.
My
biggest complaint is school when it's Send-the-roses day, somebody's
always left out. I always got roses, but I would give them to someone
who hadn't gotten any.
I'm
always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body
parts all over the place. Mangled!
They're
unbelievable. They're an inspiration to young love. - on Ryan Phillippe
and Reese
Witherspoon
There's
so much pressure on all of us right now. On Katie
Holmes, on James Van Der Beek, and myself, to do these movies, and
do as much as you can because there is the slight feeling that one day
your phone will stop ringing. It's not about the craft, per se.
It's
so easy to fall for it all because people remind you constantly that as
fast as it comes, it can go. And I think there is this sort of paranoia,
this need to keep working. And I know that I felt it, and for the first
three years of the show, I never had more than a week off, except for
Christmas. That was it.
How
can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us
out. We have specially prepared meals. - On being skinny
I
got a computer and I'm learning how to use it. I collect antique books,
so I used it to get my copy of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' and I use it
for travel, to look up customs. I went to Fiji, and I looked up all this
stuff before I went, like 'Don't wear a hat in someone's house because
it's rude, and don't wear shoes.' You've got to think there's something
better I can do with my time than log on to the Internet and say, 'Ooo,
let's find out about me!' I think that would frighten me a little bit.
It
makes me think of women who don't shave their legs. - on what the word
"feminist" means
It
was a great kiss. It even had a saliva trail. - On her kissing scene
with Selma
Blair in Cruel Intentions
One
of the greatest gifts my job has given me is that my mother, who gave up
her entire life for me, doesn't have to work any more. I'm now in a
position to repay her for her devotion.
I
am militant about drugs. You want to do 'em? You're out of my life.
Right
now I can't picture posing, but I don't believe in saying never... There
might be a time when I got pregnant and felt really beautiful and wanted
to have a nude picture.
I
would go to college to be a journalist. I always wanted to write for
Time or Newsweek.
You'll
never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
I
don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce
Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
I'm
so grateful I don't have to go looking for a man on a Saturday night. I
was always terrible at chatting up men.
To
me, the scariest elements of horror films are the things that could
really happen. And what is more scary than high school? ... What I like
about the show is that it reminds you it's O.K. to be different. What
people think isn't necessarily true. If people walk away with half of
that, we've done our job.
I
seduced my stepfather, and when he wouldn't sleep with me, I slept with
the stable boy, cried rape, and my mother stabbed him with a letter
opener. Then I went to jail for perjury, burned my parents' divorce
papers, and locked up my little sister. I think that was all in the
first week.
Everybody
there had a talent, and everyone was respected. If somebody didn't like
you--they didn't talk to you! They didn't make fun of you, punish you.
You could, you know, mess around with how you dress. You really had that
chance to find yourself, and I thank God for that school. I went to that
school feeling amazingly untalented. That school was my lifeline. Let me
tell you something--talent night at our school? There was nothing like
it.
Horror
films are where women can shine and have a chance to lead. They always
save the day in these films.
I
have good friends, gay couples, who've been together for 18 years. It
drives me crazy that in the eyes of the law, their love isn't
acknowledged when I have girlfriends who have married four times by the
age of 25.
I
don't believe in organized religion and I never have.
No,
that's what bothers me. That's how they think. Okay, this is a
summer...I remember that it used to be you could see great movies any
time. Now it's like summer is for blockbusters, fall is for the movies
that they can't fit into any other time, that's like September. Then
Oscar movies start, it used to be post Thanksgiving.
Now
the awards are earlier so it starts earlier. January is when they dump
movies. And it's just so... it seems to me so obvious that wouldn't it
be better for the marketplace to have these movies spread out? Not just
people don't only go to the movies in summer time.
If
that was the truth, then in the summer time they would count the whole
week's worth of the box office but it's still only a weekend. So why
does it matter...sorry, I get a little upset. It's just frustrating.
Basically
I only like to choose films that I don't understand. As long as they're
greater than my mental capacity, I figure I gotta be doing something
artful, right? Isn't that what makes something art when you don't
understand it?
I
wish, and I wish so much for the film industry right now. I wish so much
for originality and I wish so much and I think that we're caught in this
difficult cycle right now because our studios are corporations
now.
I
keep talking about the old 1940s, where one guy with a cigar and a
scotch made decisions for a studio and now because there are all these
computer corporations basically, technology companies and there's so
much else that goes into a decision that it's very difficult to get
films that are different that are off the beaten path made.
It's
much easier to get something unoriginal made than to get something
original.
'Simply
Irresistible' was just a bad choice - and for that it was a great
learning experience. I wasn't ready to make that movie. I was too young.
The script was not ready. I knew in my heart before I left to make it
that I should back out.
I
hope positively. One thing about the show was it was never categorized.
It was drama, comedy, action, horror, all of those things combined. And
I just want people to remember it as a fabulous run, a fabulous seven
years.
In
this day and age, everything is so cross-marketed that the lines have
blurred in my opinion between what is an actor and what is a celebrity.
What is reality? All you have to do is pick up a magazine or turn on the
television and you can get ideas from places that five years ago you
couldn't.
That's
so weird. It's one of those things that's like you go on location and
you're there for a week getting ready. Here it's like you're walking the
dog, you're paying the bills and then 10 minutes later, you have to go
to work. It's a very sort of odd- - I'm grateful for it and so glad to
actually film a movie in Hollywood. Although some of these locations are
pretty far. I could probably fly to some of them.
It's
funny in the sense of he'll say to me, 'You don't understand. You're
doing a movie. I've been on my feet all day.' I'm like, 'For real? For
real I don't understand?' So that's kind of odd. And the times are funny
because I'm on nights and he's more organized in terms of...or last week
he was getting out of the house at like 3:30 in the morning.
Do
a sitcom. Don't do a one hour. That was actually my advice. He was going
to do a one hour. I was like, 'Are you crazy? You know what people make
for sitcoms and how little they work, right? You see all of our friends
on sitcoms.
You
know what? I only see myself doing films that interest me and that are a
little bit off the beaten path. I will go wherever that takes me. I just
- - I always say it just can't be generic. I can't be the girlfriend or
the wife or the - - you can't play the characters that I've been blessed
to play and then do that. I can't be the girl in the film.
I
think the best piece of advice I've ever gotten is to trust myself and
go for my dreams. I got that from my mom.
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