Biografie

Declined to re-create the Sharon Stone leg crossing scene for director Paul Verhoeven in the movie Showgirls (1995).

Recently said that she would love to run Playboy Magazine. She had offered to do a pictoral for them, but was disappointed with how Playboy wanted her to pose and withdrew her offer. When asked what she'd like to see done differently, she said that the magazine should return to a "hip 70s style".

Was a California Valley Girl, moved to New York and tried to change her image.

Her favorite movies that she's been in are Bound - Gefesselt (1996) and The Player (1992).

Attended high school with Lenny Kravitz.

[on Showgirls (1995)] I decided to make my part campy because I initially thought that it was going to be really dark and really intense and then it just turned out to be completely different. So instead of going in that direction, I decided to make it so that drag queens would want to dress as my character on Halloween.

All I wanted to do was play "Conrad Birdie"; I really wanted to be like the Elvis Presley guy, and they ended up giving me the lead, "Rosie".

All my roles are different parts of my personality. Hannah is the caretaker part of me, the psychologist in Eine Liebe in Prag (1998) ... is the part of me that's always analyzing, Guinevere's Billie is the artistic side.

Being the control freak that I am, I want to know everything beforehand. At this point I'm just going along for the ride.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do