Chloë Sevigny (Actor)

"Hopefully I'll get more acting jobs in good films. I feel really lucky that everything just happened by chance or by fate or that combination of accident that you describe. But I worry, too. I remember when I would look at Seventeen or Sassy magazine and I'd think, 'all these girls, they're so beautiful. And look at me. I'm not.' I don't want girls to look at me and compare themselves and have those same kinds of feelings I had. From the very beginning I've been skeptical of all that fame stuff." - Sevigny quoted in Interview magazine, August 1995

"I just turn down everything. I don't go in for any auditions. I mean, if I look at a script and I've seem something the director made before that I didn't like, I won't even read it. I'm probably the worst careerist working in movies today, but that's okay." - Sevigny quoted to Premiere magazine, October 1998

"I think my mom would like me to be Reese Witherspoon, but she knew I was never going to be." - Sevigny quoted to Hollywood Life, March/April 2007

"Making independent films is not really important to me. But it just happens to be what I've done so far. Was 'Trees Lounge' even independent? No, it was Orion. People can say it's an independent. The same with 'Gummo' [written and directed by Harmony Korine, who also wrote 'Kids'] - it's Fine Line. That's not really independent. I'm not anti big budget at all. I want to get paid all that money. I haven't gotten paid any money for the films I've done." - Sevigny quoted to Details, February 1997

"The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloë and Maude, and the was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more. People always come up to me and say, Oh, you're Chloë Se-VIG-ny, right? Sevigny. Number seven, letter e." - quoted in magazine, January 2009

Chloe Sevigny on her performance as Lana Tisdel in "Boys Don't Cry": "I went all out because I felt like before in all of my movies, I was never very emotional. I was kind of stiff. I wanted to try something I'd never done before and go crazy. I looked like shit, I didn't get any sleep, none of us saw the light of day for four weeks because we were shooting everything at night. I just hope it comes across well." - quoted in Detour, October 1999