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 I
definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag.
There's no fun in that.
I
hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any
cellulite then.
I'm
a big lazeball. I sit around all day and eat prosciutto and drink
Bellinis. That's my diet.
LA's
a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It
can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care
of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's
giving each other catty looks.
I'm
so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The
people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's
unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.
It
would be hellish to have the pressure of putting on a Hollywood ending
or putting in a scene where Vermeer sees Griet washing her breasts"
- commenting on why she was glad that Girl with a Pearl Earring was a
small foreign production.
I
always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.
I
have a lot of actor friends who worked with their parents closely and
have had really horrible experiences. They end up suing or being
emancipated. The wonderful thing about my mom [who is also her manager]
is that she completely respects my creative weirdness and supports any
decision I make.
As
long as people keep buying tabloids, they'll keep harassing people in
the public eye. They'll make up stories.
I
so fancied him when I was young, that to see my name on the credits next
to his makes me go all girly. He was a hunk back in those days.
I
have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning
because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to
my success.
It's
a great thing to get older and learn. I don't feel bound in any way by
how many years I've lived. I identify just as much with my 86-year-old
grandmother as I do with my sister.
People
forget what it's like to be a child. When you're a child actress, people
sometimes regress into being obnoxious and patronizing. But there's no
reason to dumb things down just because you're working with kids.
What
I respect most in people is naturalness and authenticity. I like to be
able to see into their soul. I aspire to being a truthful person.
The
most precious moment in life is when you're about to fall in love.
You're lying in bed together and he's gazing at you and you're gazing at
him and there's a sense that something truly wondrous is about to
happen. It's a nervous moment - but it's exhilarating.
I
am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of
love and care.
I
don't talk about my personal relationships, it always ends up kicking
you in the face. But I've read a lot of things about myself and think,
`Wow! That girl sounds really saucy.'
I
think that I sort of see other actresses are kind of proud of the way
they look and show it off. That's never really been my style. I really
don't think that it's disgusting or wrong, if you're 18 you're 18, it's
your body, it's your right to show yourself, however, I don't really
take a part in that. I like to look nice, but I think that there's ways
of doing it that are more tasteful than just wearing a bikini wherever
you go.
I
don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that
Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like, 'who me?'. I
guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying,
this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed.
Well,
you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do.
Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not,
some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I
always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than
something I build in my mind.
Tons
of that stuff comes to me, but a lot of it is awful. All these teenage
slaying movies, and movies about girls that have deformities that become
cheerleaders and then marry the prom king!
I
always had the chance to do whatever I wanted to do, my parents were
very open about that. Acting has been a passion of mine. I wanted to be
in musicals as a kid, and took tap dance, so for me it's a dream come
true, my childhood was filled with things that I loved to do, and also
very normal things: I lived in New York, I have a family life and went
to a regular school. If anything, I look back and think, 'Wow, I did a
lot of things that a lot of people don't get to do in their lifetime'.
It's
a place of solace. I love London, it's an amazing city. I've met some
wonderful people there and I also have some family there. I'm from New
York, so I feel very at home in London. It's like a metropolitan
breeding ground for culture, art, music and diversity. It's a beautiful
city, with beautiful history.
In
Hollywood, it's hard to step outside of the circle once you're in it.
But in London I was really moved by how accepted I felt there. There was
definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses!
I
came home and I thought I was going to die. I was in agony. I had
muscles that had atrophied. I couldn't run any longer and it was only
the first day. But, actually, Ewan was in the same boat. He had black
and blue marks all over him. So, it wasn't so bad since someone else was
in agony.
I
don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I
think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of
media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing
that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments.
Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside
photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very
uncomfortable.
Everyone
in Hollywood is so damn skinny and you constantly feel like you're not
skinny enough. But I have 'fat days' and I accept that I'm never going
to be rail thin. It's hard not to feel pressure in this industry and I
already use anti-aging products on my skin.
I
try not to let the pressure get to me but Los Angeles is a very hard
place to be unless you have people here that love you. It can be very,
very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself.
I
was driving through Los Angeles and I look up and see the biggest photo
of me I have ever seen in my life on a massive ad space. I screamed and
slammed on the brakes. I couldn't believe it. It's very strange to see
my cleavage the size of a brontosaurus. My breasts were huge. I had long
hair and my goodness, I couldn't get past the cleavage.
I
don't think human beings are monogamous by nature. It's difficult - you
have to put a lot of effort into a relationship. I think it's hard for
actors to date each other because they are so damn moody.
You
are away from people constantly and having a relationship that is
strictly by phone, it is miserable. Or if you say to him/her, 'Hey,
(even though) I am doing a very sexy scene with this very sexy girl/boy,
I love you and I'm going to be thinking of you when I am rolling around
in bed with this person!'
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