It's An Indication Of How

I Was Very Obsessed With Ruth Gordon. I Really Didn't Foresee Me Having Any Type Of Career As A Leading Lady At All Because It Was Just Blonds. I Just Wasn't The Type - I Was Told That By Casting Directors. I Auditioned For Running On Empty [1988] And The Mosquito Coast [1986], And Martha Plimpton Was Just Killing Me.

I Was Mid-sentence When The Casting Director Said, "listen, Kid. You Should Not Be An Actress. You Are Not Pretty Enough. You Should Go Back To Wherever You Came From And You Should Go To School. You Don't Have It." She Was Very Blunt - I Honestly Think That She Thought She Was Doing Me A Favor.

I Think It's Really Important To Have A Life Outside Of This [movie] Business And Just Be The Best Person You Can Be.

My Parents Really Instilled This Idea In Me Of Being Your Own Person, Almost To The Extent That I Couldn't Do Wrong. I'd Get A Bad Grade And They'd Be Like, "no! What You Did Was Great!"

All We Want Is To Be Treated Like Human Beings, And Not To Be Patronized, Or Experimented On Like Guinea Pigs.