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I want to express myself and feel free, and not hamper myself by fear. I've done that enough. I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to worry about what people are going to label me as.

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Go ahead and think whatever you want. This is just me. You can figure it out. It's not my job to sell America on who I am. My job is to be in movies, and I am hopeful that people like my work. I'm not running for office.

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I don't want to put a label on myself, and I don't like it when other people do.

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People think of childhood as this extraordinary time of freedom, but it's not that. Being an adult is free, because you're responsible for yourself now. You get to make your own decisions. That's freedom: being in charge of yourself.

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I had my first boyfriend when I was eighteen. I was a late, ah, bloomer, as far as that goes. I was very tall and felt very awkward. My senior year I was a foreign exchange student in Sweden. People say, 'Why did you pick Sweden?' It was for the sex.

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I think there is an obsession in our culture to try and label people something. There is some urge to define what people are. They want to wrap you up.

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I think a lot of people in this business do believe that you have to be kind of tortured — you know, there's no such thing as a genius without the tortured part. I don't think that's necessarily true.

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I don't think childhood is everything it's cracked up to be. Some people have this idyllic vision of childhood as this innocent, wonderful time, or it's this time when you're a free spirit. I don't think that's true; I think it's stressful. And kids are cruel.

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