A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.
After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.
Approval from other people means a lot.
Everything you read now is like a remake of a movie you've already seen. With independent film, things are more character-driven.
I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.
I didn't sit with paparazzi and interview them. I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follows him.
I have vocal tics in the film, but I say nonsensical phrases because I thought it would be a more interesting take.
I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.
I need to be home for a while. I've been working for two-and-a-half years, so I want to go back to New York with my husband and hang out with my dogs!
I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.
I remember reading a review that said Jodie Foster was screaming so loud to be given an Oscar, you wanted them to give it to her just so she'd stop.
I stripped down for Allure photos.
I tend to be drawn to the more aberrant characters. There's more to do with them.
I usually play disenfranchised youth.
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.
I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
I'm very excited to get to be in a movie with a quintessential Albert Brooks moment.
I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.
I've quoted Lost in America several times.
In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.
People do eventually see something that's quality.
People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.
The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.
Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.
This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.
When people see you after an event film, they tend to get really odd. But what's the alternative, dinner theatre in Fort Lauderdale?
I was always brought up to say please and thank you and always tell the truth, and people were saying, 'Oh my God, what's going to happen with your character next year (on "Prison Break" (2005))?' and I wasn't allowed to say, so I felt really guilty because I was lying to all these people, including my neighbours. You know, the character had its run, and I was really happy to be part of a show that was so successful and that people loved so much, but there was really nothing else for her to do"
She had to wear a wig during the production of The Craft (1996) because she shaved her head for her role in Empire Records (1995), which was filmed a year earlier.
Attended the Chicago Academy for the Arts and studied acting.
Grew up with Lara Flynn Boyle and attended high school together at the prestigious Chicago Academy for the Arts.
Is best friends with Indie Rocker Liz Phair.
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