"Was it a difficult decision to play a gay character? When I look at a script, I read it for the story and I read it for the character. I don't read it as 'oh, I'm going to play a gay character, I'm going to play an angry character, I'm going to play a happy character.' You're playing a character. It's just a quality, it's just something about that person and I don't focus on that."
"And in life I don't say 'oh, that's my gay friend' or 'hey, that's my straight friend. That's my bisexual friend' or 'that's my black friend.' I think it's silly to put those kinds of labels on things and it kind of limits you. Because to say 'oh, I've played a gay character,' it's kind of judging it in a way or giving myself a pat on the back or something. I didn't think I was doing anything extraordinary or unusual or risky by doing that. We're just telling a great story."
"Because I think they're insecure. And I think they don't know themselves that well. And whatever they don't know about themselves, they're scared of."
[on homophobia]
"I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting."
"We were at closing night of the Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in San Francisco. There were these two fifteen-year-old cheerleaders and they were girlfriends. It was really cool. They came up to me after the show and one of them, she was just like sobbing and weeping, and I'm like, "Oh my God, I'm so sorry" and she was like, "No, it was just so beautiful." And it was nice."
"It ain't too much fun to see people drink when you don't."
[about going to clubs]
"All of my fans are like fourteen-year-old boys."
"You've got to be a skinny oddball," she said, wincing. "You've got to be a beautiful ugly girl." I only see the beauty—in fact, to me she looks spookily like a female Josh Hartnett. "I get that all the time," Clea said, lightening up. "I told Josh I wanted to have his baby so we could make little clones—the attack of the clones."
"I mean, it's exciting to open people's minds and show them that it's okay."
This guy in a bar that asked me if I was in Girl, Interrupted I said yeah and he said yeah, I saw that movie. And like twenty minutes later he was like screaming really rude things about me at the top of his lungs. And I was just like what the fuck are you doing? Why are you like tearing me apart in the middle of this bar? And he's like, cuz you're a f*ckin' bitch. You and that Angelina bitch. That was scary. But then I confronted him and then he called me some more names and then he apologized later, and he threw up."
"I was unhappy there, so I left. I was very much an individual and independent at a young age."
"I don't go to the parties. It's my job. I'm working when I'm working, and when I'm not, then I don't. I don't make it more important than it is."
"I'm an only child and I'm just a real loner kind of person… and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous."
"I think they think I'm like James Dean or something. I wish I were, but I'm not."
"No one has that power over me. Am I pregnant? Then I'm smoking. That's my rule."
"I hope that when they walk out of it, they have an understanding of what it's like to be gay. If there's a kid that's having doubts or whatever, I hope that they see that it's okay to be gay, and that it can be a beautiful thing and there's nothing wrong with it."
"I'm only 22 and I fall asleep at nine o'clock at night!"
"I feel like I've gotten better and I'm not as in my shell as I used to be. I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness."
"I try to keep an open mind but I just-oh, I don't know-I'm so tired of the mediocrity. It's fine when someone does it once but then it gets done 800 times, and that one popular thing gets huge and makes billions of dollars. Then you have people like Les Beaux Peeps or The Need who won't get acknowledged because they're doing something different."
"...No one ever told me to lose weight until I started acting, and that doesn't ever feel good!"
"I'm starting to think maybe it's me that's a little odd. I'm definitely attracted to characters that aren't the norm, that aren't girls you see every day."
"Think of it as The X-Files during the Dust Bowl."
[on Carnivále]
"Everything I've seen was always about being gay. Like, gay, gay, gay. And not so much about like two souls connecting. That's what really moved me about it. If you see two people connecting and it's really beautiful, that's what's touching. Because you can watch a love story, and if the people have nothing in between them, then you don't give a shit. Excuse me."
[on But I'm a Cheerleader]
"It was just a relief that under all of the insanity and the Barbie world, there was this beautiful love story."
[on But I'm a Cheerleader]
"It was really intense. We were all in this small city in Pennsylvania together for three months working in a mental hospital every single day for fourteen hours a day. We made a really special film and I'm very proud of it."
[on filming Girl, Interrupted]
"My whole life is working out and shooting guns right now. I'm learning how to fight people with, like, sticks in my hands and disarm 6'5" men."
[on Ghost of Mars]
"Oh nice. She's All That... My best credit."
[on She's All That]
"Oooh, sorry about that one!"
[on The Astronaut's Wife]
"Oh God, my huge part in that. When you're onscreen for less than five minutes I guess you can't do much wrong."
[on Can't Hardly Wait]
"I was so little when I made that! That was my first job ever and I don't even admit to it."
[on Little Witches]
"How did you know about 'Little Witches'?? You've seen it? So you've seen my ass! Oh my God, I can't believe this. I did that movie when I was 18. 'Little Witches' dosen't count. It was my first movie and I had no clue what I was doing, I mean, my God, I worked in a coffee house while that film was being shot."
[on Little Witches]
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