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I Originally Read For The Roles Of Debra And Rita [in Dexter], Because They Didn't Know What Direction They Were Going In, And I Worked So Hard On Deb, Because I Just Wanted To Swear. I Wanted To Say All Those Nasty Words. That Was It: "i Want To Swear On Television!".

It's Really Interesting - I Wanted To Become An Actress When I Was Young Because I Wanted To Do Romantic Comedy. And I Did A Lot Of Comedies Very Early On, But Then My Career Took Kind Of A Left Turn With Joss Whedon, And I Discovered That Doing Genre Work Is Actually More Interesting As An Actor, Because The Given Circumstances Are More Extreme. And It Really Is Creatively More Challenging.

That Movie [jawbreaker] Was So Much Fun To Shoot. We Were All In Our Mid-20s At The Time, Playing High School Students. Which Was The Point. It Was The Point Of The Film To Hire Older Actors To Play High School Students. But We Had A Blast.

I Was 18 Years Old When I Did The Pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], So I Was A Freshman At Nyu, And It Was One Of My First Professional Auditions In New York City. And I Somehow Booked The Job. I Have No Idea How.

I Didn't Tell Anybody [had Got A Role At As Good As It Gets], Because I Was Just Going, "well, That Was The Strangest Audition..." And I Just Thought, "there's No Way He Gave Me The Job On The Spot When There Was A Room Full Of Other Girls Waiting To Audition For It." But Then I Didn't Hear Anything For A Couple Of Days, So I Finally Called My Agents, And They're, Like, "oh, Yeah, Congratulations! We Know Jim [l.brooks] Told You In The Room That You Got It."