I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.
I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.
I exercise more for mental relaxation than anything else.
I try to eat sensibly. I cheat, but for the most part, I eat in a clean way.
I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it.
I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it.
I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.
I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know?
It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now.
I do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged.
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.'
Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.
I was an actor who happened to be a kid.
It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.
I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast.
Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.
I love Berlin.
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.
I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.
You have to come to work from a place of love.
I think people are made uncomfortable by uncensored expressions of emotion.
The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.
I am a feminist.
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.
I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.
My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.
