On Acting
"I always knew I wanted to do it. I was 2 when I started asking my parents if I could act." (2001, Chicago Tribune interview by Julia Keller)
"I wanted to be everything. And in acting you kind of get to." (2001, Nylon Magazine, interview by Tamara Ikenberg)
"Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far." (2001, Nylon Magazine, interview by Tamara Ikenberg)
On leaving acting for two years: "You have to hate not doing something more than you hate doing it." (2001, Nylon Magazine, interview by Tamara Ikenberg)
"When I'm in character I'm not self-conscious. When I get off the stage (in Blue Surge), it's like, 'What the **** am I wearing?'" (2001, Nylon Magazine, interview by Tamara Ikenberg)
"One of the things with "Bully" that was interesting was learning to get over some of my self-consciousness." "It's actually made me feel more free because, now that I've done that, I don't feel like there's anything to hide." (2001, CNN interview by Lori Blackman)
"I don't see myself as being a particularly gorgeous person or something, and I tend to feel comfortable in roles like this one (Lisa Connelly)." (2001, CNN interview by Lori Blackman)
"It [Bully] was really ... realistic and because of that, yes, it was painful. But I'd rather do something like that that was honest." (2001, CNN interview by Lori Blackman)
"It was a disturbing place to go. It was completely draining. When I went home I had to watch a lot of fairy movies and kind of detoxify." (2002, Time Out London, interview by Jessica Cargill Thompson)
"I'm not someone who is automatically happy with that stuff." "... it was very vulnerable. And the character Lisa is so miserable in her own skin that it made me feel worse." "... I was in the mindset of someone who was very uncomfortable ..." (2002, i-D Magazine Interview by Glenn Waldron)
"I was physically ill when we shot those scenes [in Bully], but I've come to a Zen place about it. I don't know what it's going to do for my dating life. You've seen it all, so what do you really want?" (2001, Spin Magazine, Interview by Diane Vadino)
"I had to gain some weight and not work out. Just what every actress wants." (2002, i-D Magazine Interview by Glenn Waldron)
"... when I am preparing for a role, I know I'm factoring in so many things, but I'm not always hyper-aware of it. You kind of piece together all the [things] you have in storage, in your head, a lot of things, and when you're doing it, you're obviously drawing on those things ... (2001, online interview by Sameer Padania)
"I try as much as possible to think about people I know or I watch people a lot, I've always been an observer of human behaviour. So I tend to draw more on that than another character that I've seen or another performance." (2001, online interview by Sameer Padania)
"... [Before shooting Bully] we all got a chance to talk to some people and we spent some time in the area [Hollywood, Florida], so you got a sense of what life was like..." "... it was a totally different way of looking at life - just everything: speech pattern, movement, I just let myself fall into it, talked, hung out around there - but there are many factors... the heat..., you know, the boredom, the fact that everything seemed to look the same, everyone seemed to look the same, you know what I mean, it was really fascinating..." (2001, online interview by Sameer Padania)
"To me, you shouldn't be aware that there's a camera there. I mean everyone works differently, but when I'm acting I try not to be aware there's a camera there, that we're shooting a film ..." (2001, online interview by Sameer Padania)
"... if I start thinking about the real people and the fact that they were there, this is their house that kind of pulls me out of my reality." (2000/2001, Bully DVD interviews)
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