Rachael Leigh Cook

Rachael: I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

Rachael: Once I tried highlighting my brother's hair, but I think I mixed it wrong. It was as if someone poured kerosene on his head.

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

Rachael: I'm learning to play guitar. It's very difficult, but I'm determined to do it right so I don't make anybody mad.

Rachael: When something is troubling me, people know about it.

Rachael: My height was never a factor.

Rachael: You can grow apart from people very quickly.

Rachael: Like, I crave boredom at this point.

Rachael: 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.

Rachael: I'm Rachael, and I just really, really like to act. But I don't think it's who I am.

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

Rachael: I'm not ready to be put in a box.

Rachael: I'm more of a whiner!

Rachael: I do know where my toothbrush collection is. It's in a blue, zippered vinyl pencil case with pictures of cats on the front in my parents' attic in Minneapolis. You never know when you're going to need a toothbrush collection!

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

Rachael: I can be incredibly self-conscious and erratic when I'm not comfortable with somebody or a situation.

Rachael: I always say that even if this were the worst movie in the world, I'd do it again because it was such a good time.

Rachael: I always get keyed up worrying about things that don't need to be worried about.

Rachael: Hours fly by while I'll just be in my apartment, and somehow it will be messy later. I'll clean it up and eat cereal and watch Ricki Lake and call friends I haven't talked to.

Rachael: My mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

Rachael: Acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

Rachael: I don't think I'm that kind of actor, not like Julia Roberts-recognizable.

Rachael: I guess I've done one other movie with a group of girls, but we weren't as close.

Rachael: I have a pair of lucky socks.

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

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

Rachael: I just stopped growing at about 15.

Rachael: I mean, whether or not you're there, people change from junior high to high school and from high school to college.

Rachael: I think I'm a million different faces.

Rachael: I want to try everything.

Rachael: I was a PBS kid!

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

Rachael: Being a realist helps protect me from disappointment in both my business and personal life.

Rachael: Sometimes I'm just a disaster! Other times it seems like I'm one of the most normal people I know.

Rachael: One night we invited a bunch of people over and had sort of an eighth-grade party. We ordered pizza and watched Wayne's World. It was great!

Rachael: 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.

Rachael: People always give me styling products and stuff.