Kirsten Dunst
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.
I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.
I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.
I hate red-carpet photographs!
I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl.
I don't gossip about myself.
I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.
I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.
I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.
The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.Collection: Real
I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.Collection: Mother
Rare are the people who can capture a human being.Collection: People
I've seen 'karma' slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.Collection: Karma
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.Collection: Sexy
Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.Collection: Hard Times
When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.Collection: Giving
If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.Collection: Weed
I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.Collection: Weed
Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.Collection: Thinking
People always tell me, Don’t work so much, but I can’t help it. I feel like all the things I’ve done are important to get to this adult stage now and now I’m getting all these adult offers, so it’s working.Collection: People
I was always in and out of school. What I learned in high school is that female friendships are so much more important than worrying about having a boyfriend or looking good or things like that. I had such a good girlfriend growing up that we didn't need anything. We had such a creative world of our own imagination together. For me, if I have a child, I would say, "I hope you find a best friend that makes it so you don't really need much but each other." Learning about that type of friendship and trust is one of the best things I ever got out of school.Collection: Girlfriend
As an actress, there's a lot of waiting. You wait for a script to come in that you want to do. You get to a point where you decide that if you want good things to be made, you're going to have to start making them yourself as an actress. You can't just wait around for it. But you can also just enjoy the breaks, and use them to kind of refuel. I've been working so long at this point that I don't mind the breaks. I think they make me better, actually.Collection: Thinking
I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.Collection: Dad
A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.Collection: Albums
I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.Collection: Thinking
I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.Collection: Kids
To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.Collection: Memorable
I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.Collection: Hurt
It's nice when the movie is not on your shoulders, too. It's fun to do a smaller part sometimes.Collection: Fun
Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an actress and it's a reason why I feel brave to do a film like Melancholia. So, to me she's the ultimate.Collection: Long
I've learned to do a movie and then not be in that place for a long time.Collection: Long
I can't watch my movies and get into them because as soon as I see myself I get taken out of the film.Collection: Taken
The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.Collection: Moving
I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.Collection: Play
I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?Collection: Mean
I get to do all these crazy things in the movies. I'm a pretty chilled out person, actually... a very mellow person.Collection: Crazy
I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.Collection: Water
I live in New York now and most of magazines have turned more towards reality stars. So, really I think that's great because it's turned towards people who want it rather than... So, I think it's actually kind of imploding in on itself a little bit.Collection: New York
I don't think that this movie is the kind of movie that a magazine like In Touch even cares about, if you know what I mean. It's a Lars von Trier film. They care about Moneyball, not Melancholia. They care about what I wear to Melancholia premieres; they don't really care about a Lars von Trier film.Collection: Mean
Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!Collection: Normal
I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?Collection: Mean
Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything.Collection: Kids
I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.Collection: Kids
I'm not someone who is scared of doing things out of the box.Collection: Scared
I hate red carpet photographs!Collection: Hate
After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.Collection: Thinking