Quotes from Selma Blair

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

A wedding is such a girl thing.

I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.

I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.

Dark Horse was my second time working with Todd Solondz. I love him truly, very much. And I don't think he'd ever worked with an actor a second time. It was groundbreaking.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.