"You don't grow up in a town of 700 thinking you're going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy."
"I don't really look like I do in any of my films."
"I love dive bars. Just on principle, I refuse to go to a place and spend $12 on a drink. I'm sorry, can't do it. It's ridiculous."
"Give me a guy who doesn't like sports and by the time I'm done, he'll be watching them."
"All of this [acting career] scares the hell out of me. I'm frightened and uneasy and sometimes my heart skips a beat. But, hey, it got me out of Iowa, right?"
"I moved to Chicago after graduating high school, because it was the nearest big city. There, I was three years into a journalism degree with plans to become an investigative television reporter when, I found out I was going to have to start out in a small market like Iowa. So I left."
"On my first day on Unfaithful, I was standing with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, and I started thinking of that game from Sesame Street, "Which of these three things does not belong?""
"Somebody told me I'll be on the Celebrity Skin Web site, and I was like "Oh! That's great!" I love the internet. Now I can look at my tits every day online."
"I modeled for years, so I'm not really freaked out about showing my body."
"There are no small jobs, only small actors. I mean, it's such a cliché thing, but it truly is as an actor."
"I put in a lot of hard work and I want people to realize for every job I've gotten, there are 50 or 60 I haven't. People think 'overnight success' - it took me six years to have this overnight success"
"I'd feel like a fool in a hat and sunglasses" [on hoping to never be recognised on the streets]
"Fame is not something that worries me. If it happens, then the only thing I can do is deal with it. Right now I'm focused on my growth as an actress. I think more people are thinking about fame for me than I am thinking about it myself."
"[In New York] People are so busy moving, they don't make eye contact".
"I hate to be sucked in, pushed up and laced to the hilt. And I'm not into the ruffles and bows."
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