I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.
I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.
I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
Your best friend is the only one who would tell you the person you are in love with is a sexually ambivalent man-child.
Jennifer's astrological sign is Aquarius.
Jennifer's first on-screen (though uncredited) appearance was as a little girl bouncing a rubber ball in the West German film Tod Eines Fremden (Death Of A Stranger) (1973). Family friend Jason Robards appeared in the same film as well.
Jennifer starred in two movies back-to-back with fellow actor Rutger Hauer, in Flesh And Blood (1985) and The Hitcher (1986).
Jennifer hated her role as a fireman's girlfriend in Backdraft (1992), saying that out of all the main characters in the film, hers was the most underdeveloped.
Jennifer received a special award at the Tellirude Film Festival in 1993 for her contributions to independent cinema.
Jennifer dropped to ninety pounds to play the drug addicted barroom rock singer, Sadie Flood in 1995's Georgia, alongside Mare Winningham. Jennifer sang all of the songs but one by Van Morrison, the eight and a half minute track 'Take Me Back'.
Jennifer played the psychotic roommate from Hell, Hedy, alongside Bridget Fonda in the 1992 thriller Single White Female.
Jennifer played an undercover narcotics agent that gets addicted to the drugs that she seizes in the line of duty, in the 1991 movie Rush.
Jennifer's least favorite role was in 1991 in Ron Howrd's firefighting drama Backdraft. She played a run-of-the-mill girlfriend, and she felt her character was underdeveloped.
Jennifer was launched into the spotlight in 1982, when she appeared alongside Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, and Forest Whitaker in the hit teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Jennifer was honored with a special award for her contribution to the Independent Cinema from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2002.
Jennifer became interested in acting as a child, and participated in a summer acting workshop led by Lee Strasberg at age 14.
Jennifer lost weight to portray a teenage anorexic in the 1981 tv movie The Best Little Girl In The World. She dropped to 86 lbs. while under medical supervision.
Jennifer's measurements are: 34B-23-34 1/2 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Jennifer had a scene filmed for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), but was unavailable for re-shoots and the scene was re-filmed with someone else.
Jennifer is close friends with Phoebe Cates since their time working together on Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982).
Jennifer first received her Screen Actors' Guild card when she was 16, while working on an episode of Baretta.
Jennifer read for the audiobook version of Paint It Black by Janet Fitch, released in September 2006.
Jennifer appeared in Faith No More's "Last Cup Of Sorrow" music video in 1997.
She's been called a post-modern Meryl Streep, and is considered to be one of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood.
She won two 1990 Critic Society awards for her portrayal of Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) and as Susan Waggoner in Miami Blues (1990).
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