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#1. I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

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#2. I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

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#3. I was a handful growing up.

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#4. I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

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#5. I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

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#6. Not eating meat really keeps me trim ... meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.

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#7. If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

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#8. I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

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#9. I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

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#10. When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.

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#11. Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

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#12. It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself.

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#13. So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

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#14. If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

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#15. I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.

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#16. My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.

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#17. I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

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#18. It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

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#19. I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

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#20. Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.

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#21. I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

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#22. I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

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#23. Not everything has to be a couples' event.

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#24. We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

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#25. I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

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#26. I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

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#27. My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

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#28. Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

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#29. I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

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#30. Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?

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#31. I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.

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#32. I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

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#33. I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

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#34. I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

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#35. The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

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#36. I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

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#37. In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.

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#38. Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

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#39. When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

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#40. Power tends to get confused with repression.

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#41. Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.

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#42. My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

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#43. I know, I've never had boobs before!

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#44. I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

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#45. The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

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#46. I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'

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#47. I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

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#48. A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

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#49. Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

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#50. I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

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#51. I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

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#52. In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

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#53. I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

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#54. Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.

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#55. From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

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#56. It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

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#57. When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

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#58. It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.

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#59. I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.

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#60. We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

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#61. I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

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#62. Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

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#63. I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

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#64. I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

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#65. People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

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#66. It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

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#67. [We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.

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#68. I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

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#69. I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.

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#70. I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

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#71. When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

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#72. What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

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#73. I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.

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#74. Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

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#75. If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

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#76. The opportunity to be able to tell stories to a massive audience is really incredible and this job couldn't be more satisfying. So, any drawbacks I think are worth it if you really enjoy the work. I hope to be doing this until I die.

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#77. As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.

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#78. Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

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#79. I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.

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#80. In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

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#81. I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

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#82. In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?

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#83. Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

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#84. Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

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#85. When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

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#86. Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

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#87. I am a big music nerd.

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#88. I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

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#89. I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.

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#90. I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

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#91. People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

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#92. Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

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#93. I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

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#94. It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

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#95. When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

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#96. When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

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#97. It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

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#98. If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

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#99. Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing.

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#100. I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

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