Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.
There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It's the only truly safe place and it can happen with a stranger or a best friend.
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty.
The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.
Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.
Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.
No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.
Life is not for the faint of heart.
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Let's face it. I'm an open book.
It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.
I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.
