“I’ve always been kind of rock and roll, even as an actress.”

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”

“Because I’m not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.”

“I don’t make an effort to be sloppy. I just don’t consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I’d dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.”

‘And if I do it in a f-ing bikini, it’s because I want to be Hercules.’
- on being on stage in a bikini

“All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.”

“I don’t want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.”

“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”

“I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.”

“I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can’t be ugly.”

“I try to bring a fearlessness to it. It makes sense that I do music. I have a really solid band. I have to do this and I’m not going to stop so I don’t even care. Whoever wants to talk shit, so be it. I say: bring it on!”

“We have some mutual friends in common in the skate-rebel-punk-weird world,”

“Being that we’re both Method actors … … Basically it’s like, ‘Ten, nine, eight, seven — do we go out now? — six, five …’ ”

“Do you all know who Juliette and the Licks are? We’re all just a bunch of actors! We act like we’re in a band.”

“What I get in rock ‘n’ roll that I don’t get in movies is that connection with people. With music it’s instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it’s really amazing. I love that connection.”

“It was traumatic and lovely, … My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she’s a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.”

“As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.”

“The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say ‘I’m a character actor’ then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.”

“Like everybody I have many different sides.”

“Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.”

“Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.”

“The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.”

“I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.”

“Well, like everyone’s story who does this. When I was little, I had always wanted to be a singer since I was 7. I always thought, “Oh, I am going to be a singer.” And instead I started acting and I got successful with that stuff. But underneath I always had this drive to be musical and express myself like that on stage. And be a performer and stuff.”

“I think that’s radical,” she says. “A lot of people are sedating themselves and killing their natural musical abilities.”
- about drugs

“And I’ve got all the odds against me, because I’m an actress, blah blah blah. But I just use all that (energy). I love being an underdog, and my band speaks for me. My musicians are so rock solid that nobody can argue with that (musicality), you know? They’ve all been doing this for over a decade.”

“My parents raised me in a really unique way, they didn’t fill me with self-doubt. There’s a lot of people who don’t want to think of their kids as having sex or really awful experiences. But the thing is you gotta experience these things sooner or later. My parents made me feel as though I was always worth something.”

“I can tell everything about me, I don’t care, but it’s what other people can do with this information. They can turn it into this whole other thing. It can get all kinda’ crazy.”

“I wanted to capture her honesty so people could relate to her, I was playing a character who was full of life and determination, and it really had an effect on me. I connected very deeply to “Carla” and her feelings.”
- on her role in ‘The Other Sister’

“Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper ‘Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude.’”

“Just ’cause I’m in the same age bracket as Johnny Depp and Leo Dicaprio doesn’t mean we all screw together.”