ON SHAVING HER HEAD FOR GIA: "At the end of GIA my character dies of AIDS. And they were wondering how to show how wasted she was. One night I realized that the only way to do it was to shave all my hair off. I think everyone thought it was going to freat me out, but the truth is, every woman hates her hair, and now I don't have to worry about. It made me feel really fierce.
ON HER GAY SCENES IN GIA: "I wasn't uncomfortable. It's just not one of the things that makeme feel awkard. I also had a scene with a woman in Foxfire, but when the reviews came out, basicaly all they said was 'Angelina Jolie has great tits."
ON HER FATHER: "He was the perfect example of an artist who couldn't be married. He had the perfect family, but there's something for him that's very scary about that."
ON A MISSING SCEEN IN PLAYING GOD: "I think what happened was my character and Tim Hutton's character had a real sexuality on the page. There were scenes to show how they had come to form this relationship, and how it worked for them. But then she meets david's chacter and she falls for him too. So there was this sceen they had where he's coming off junk, and she's just been shot in the chest, and they make love... I knew people would say that junkies want to have sex whey they're withdrawling so that wasn't really the issue. but how the hell would this women be in this position, so to speak? All I could think was that this women would not want to be f***ing at this particualr time. We did film the scene, and it was so funny. Me breast were purple and I couldn't use my right arm, and David is working on being a junkie, and we're trying to have sex. he's spasming and I'm withering in pain. I'm on one arm trying to flip over, and he's got to be in a certian position... Let me tell you there was absolutly nothing sexy about this at all. I was glad they cut it out of Playing God."
ABOUT DEATH: "There's something about death that is comforting. The thought you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."
ON ONE OF HER TATTOOS: "I dropped my pants in a tatoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger."
ON ANOTHER OF HER TATTOOS: "I didn't get it for the dark, off reasons everybody thinks. It's a reminder that we could die tomorrow, so live today. It was a positive reminder to be free."
ON PLAYING LISA IN GIRL INTERRUPTED: "She's me without a lot of the other sides of me. I'm pretty unfiltered. She needs people desperately, so she gets angry and attacks them. Yeah, Lisa is completely sane. She's the sanest sociopath I've ever met. She's a completely normal person who follows her instincts and impulses to the nth degree. She is very, very in touch with herself. The problem is, she doesn't have that internal switch to tell her what's moral or rational. She's totally free. She may be locked up in the hospital, but she is the freest character I've ever played. I think Lisa is a genius! She couldn't care less about what anybody thinks. She feels it's only important to be really strong about who she is, and she wants everyone else to get up and dance that dance with her. I loved playing her. Lisa and her journey truly meant a great deal to me."
ON GOING TO SCHOOL IN NEW YORK: "That's why I came to New York. I came because I wanted to go back to school. After Gia I realized that I wasn't likly to soon find a role that could compare to that. Then the Stones asked me if I wanted to do their video, and it was great, because I had just shaved my head for the dying scene in Gia, and I've never felt so not sexy. But it was cool to be thought of as a Stone's girl... I think if you act in enough movies where other people always choose the moment, you start to think that sometimes they've chose all the wrong moments. Why are we on the long shot when that really important moment was happening inside of me? So I'm going to NYU, taking technology of film, film production and screen writing. it's been fun. my mom walked me to school the first day, and she was laughing because I had always been bad at school, and here I was with my backpack. but I think I'll be a better actress because of this. I didn't want to get caught in the wave of my career and then just get dumped off somewhere else. " I want a little control."
ON FRIEND WHILE IN NY: "I never really made any good friends in one place because I've been on movie sets for years and those people around you, and sometimes that's great, because you get all those terrific people around you, and sometimes it's not. My best experience was on Wallace. Gary Sinise made all of us feel so great. he made the set into the most supportive family, the best group of people. That was a risky role for me, and yet I never felt that way because Gary was such a terrific friend and co worker. I can't say enough nice things about him. But I think as actors, we go through groups of friends. We commit to the moment so much in our lives and in our work that we're friends who we're working with at the moment. Maybe I just don't know how to carry them into the next stage of my life"