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I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.

I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.