I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.
— Kirsten Dunst
I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.
I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl.
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 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.
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.
Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.
I think you see in people's eyes what they've been through. Anything in their lives shows up in their eyes.
Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.
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.
I don't try to be sexy, but if you are sexy it comes out. If you're not, you're not.
I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.
I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'
When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.
I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.
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 hate red-carpet photographs!
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 love to produce, and I've directed two short films.
It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.
I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up.
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.
When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.
If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'
What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.
I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill.
You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.
I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'
I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.
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 don't gossip about myself.
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.
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.
A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.
I think it's best to date someone who doesn't do what you do.
New York vintage is too expensive!
If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zone when you're a child. At first you play different sides of yourself. And I think it will be really exciting one day to have a character to go into that's not anything like me whatsoever.
I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.
I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.
I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.
I don't really relate to myself as The Girl in the Magazine. Which is dangerous for me, too, sometimes, because I don't think all the time, 'Well, look to see if people are following me home.' Sometimes I'm a little bit more free than maybe I should be.
In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.
Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.
