Jena Malone
Jena Malone
Jena Malone is an American actress and musician. She made her film debut in Bastard Out of Carolinaand has appeared in films including Ellen Foster, Contact, Stepmom, Donnie Darko, Saved!, Pride & Prejudice, Into the Wild, The Ruins, Sucker Punch, and The Hunger Games film series. Malone is also an experimental musician who has released music both under her own name and as The Shoe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 November 1984
CitySparks, NV
CountryUnited States of America
Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.
We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.
When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.
I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.
There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.
No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.
In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
I was 19, and I didn't feel I'd be able to be 15-year-old Lydia, ... But I found her through this very particular giggle. It just came from nowhere, and it took over.
It wasn't worth sifting through such excessive b.s., ... I tried to fit in and put on makeup and pretty dresses, but I always felt like a weirdo.
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.