The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.
It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.
I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.
Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.
Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.
I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.
I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.
I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.
My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.
I don't bring my life into a character at all.
There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.
I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.
I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.
I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.
I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.
I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.
I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.
I'm incredibly lazy!
I'm not technical.
Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.
