“You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.”

“I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.”