When somebody asks me who I’m wearing, I always see myself with a BabyBjoern, carrying a little tiny Karl Lagerfeld, like, ‘I’m wearing Chanel.’
It’s funny with jeans now, because if they don’t feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don’t have patience for them anymore! I think I’m becoming increasingly lazy.
People in the CIA, they marry each other. They’re like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it’s very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.
I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.
When you really get it right in acting, it’s an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
I’m just always learning lines. I’ve learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.
People talk about ‘date night,’ and it is true: Sometimes you have to apply yourself, or at least apply lipstick to yourself. You kind of have to dress up, just because. You know, wear heels to your own dinner table.
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
I became very successful at a young age… I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
However, I’m at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don’t have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I’m not immediately recognizable.
If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I’m not terribly method.
My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and ‘Homeland’ continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I’ll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.
As a young performer, I didn’t know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it’s not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it’s done.
You don’t realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
Germany’s fascinating. It’s a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.
Every time I make a movie, I’m prepared for it to become influential and career-defining – but I have no control over these things.
I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That’s just not my jam.
I am a feminist.
I know, it’s true. I’ve played these tortured teenagers. I can’t wait to shed that image.
Maybe philosophy – I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it’s terribly boring.
I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I’m just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.
But I don’t know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It’s not like you’re sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.
I’m exceptionally open with my own parents, and they’re exceptionally open with me.
I try to eat sensibly. I cheat, but for the most part, I eat in a clean way.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
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