Quotes from Rachael Leigh Cook

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy

They're not poodles, they're art.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

People always give me styling products and stuff.

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

I think I'm a million different faces.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!