I went to school at MIT with a whole bunch of engineers. And then I started work one day and asked myself, 'Why do all of these MIT Ph.D.s work for Harvard M.B.A.s?' Why should it be like that? I was one of those engineers who thought, 'Why are these people making those dumb decisions?' So it's fun to be the person making them.
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.
Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.
At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.
My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.
It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.
