Kelli Garner Quotes

I really feel with this film that I`ve been able to show my soul rather than my body. And that`s a big relief. (On her role as the titular Real Girl in Lars and the Real Girl.)

Suddenly, I`m 14 years old at a friend`s bar mitzvah, and I`m doing a limbo dance in a really short skirt. Afterwards, this guy comes up to me and says, `Well, aren`t you cute,` and he gives me his card. Turns out he was in the film business, and six months later I was doing TV adverts and trying out for movies.

I`m mostly cast as the Lolita type, either a blonde bombshell Lolita, or the girl-with-black-hair-who-smokes-weed Lolita. Either way, I`m inevitably the sexpot.

Hollywood can be an ugly place, and it can do ugly things to you. I want to avoid that side of it as much as possible, and I also want to do so much more with my life than just act. Like travel, read books, open my own bakery.

OK, sure, I have a body. I`ve had one since I was 16. But the attention it brings me, in life as well as in the industry, makes me really uncomfortable.