I Think Everybody Handles Things Very Differently

I Grew Up In Manhattan And, Since My Father Was A Playwright, All I Ever Wanted To Be Was A Stage Actress.

Theater Is The Foundation Of How I Live My Life, Actually. My Father Was A Playwright, So I Was Around It All The Time And Loved To Talk Shop With Him, Just Loved It. And Basically Everything That I Hold To Be Good And True And Worthy, I Learned In The Theater. So Not Even Just About The Work, But Just About Life. Discipline, Problem Solving, Creativity, How To Get Along With People.

What I Hope In My Ideal World Is That With Each Project, I'll Either Get To Work With A Really Great Script That Would Force Me To Grow, Or Work With A Really Great Actor Who Will Make Me Better.

People Can't Really Place Me. They're Not Really Sure Who I Am. Sometimes They Think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes They Think I'm Laura Dern.

What People Can Survive And What They Don't Survive Is Shocking To Me. Someone Can Go To Iraq And Be Blown To Bits And Survive. Someone Can Trip And Fall On The Street And They Die - That's That.