Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

I love Grimes.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.

I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.

Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, and I got pages of dialogue of real stuff to do with her.

In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.

We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.

Trends are not real; they are for the consumer, and once we can get enough of us to free ourselves from it and realize that it's not about strong-arming our way through, it's about understanding that we are so needed for the balance of this planet, then I think we can start having changes.

I'm pretty tough and picky when it comes to actors that I admire.

I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven't gotten to the point where they're comfortable being stripped down. They're still interested in ornate jackets.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

It seems like people have to get their thrills somehow.

Any time I was at Trader Joes, and the person bagging my stuff would be like, 'Did I go to college with you? How do I know you?' Then it took awhile, and suddenly people were like, 'Oh, you are the girl from 'United States of Tara.'

I would never say no to comedy.

The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.

Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.

I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that I have gained some respect from some people whom I respect.

I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.

I guess I was always an outsider and some kind of anarchist.

The only way I can feel comfortable being an actor is if I can find stories that I believe are important to be shared.

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.

I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.

My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.

I don't live in Los Angeles. I work in Los Angeles, and even that - I audition in Los Angeles; I very rarely film in Los Angeles. I don't hang out with producers on my off-hours, so I don't even know what that world is like.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.