I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.

Leelee Sobieski

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

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I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.

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rude people thinking

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

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phones people

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

Leelee Sobieski

nerd growing-up people

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

Leelee Sobieski

three sweet thinking

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

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meant-to-be

I've never played anybody like a cop before.

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cop

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'

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beautiful sweet thinking

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

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teenager movie school

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

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cities new-york moving

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.

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I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.

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wife husband heard

I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

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freak driving thinking

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

Leelee Sobieski

kissing jobs people

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

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daughter mother sweet

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

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honest feelings thinking

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

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naughty romantic dirty

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

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never real-life real life

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

Leelee Sobieski

doing think you pressure

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

Leelee Sobieski

you army girl life