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Legally emancipated from her parents at age 15.

At age 16, she won the Robbins Trading Company World Cup Championship of Futures Trading by turning $10,000 into $100,000. It is the second highest profit in the tournament's history.

Collects rare books. Owns a first edition of The Great Gatsby amongst others.

The godparents of her daughter, Matilda, are Jake Gyllenhaal (her Brokeback Mountain (2005) co-star) and Busy Philipps (her Dawson's Creek (1998) co-star).

Her ex-fiancé and father of her daughter Matilda, Heath Ledger, died on January 22, 2008.

Outside of the business during a dry spell, I scooped ice cream at a country fair, and I ate more than I sold. Making a cone is difficult, and I lost so many scoops into the chocolate swirl.

[on working on her film Timemaster (1995)] It was so awful. We turn the 'M' upside down and called it Timewaster.

I can't watch myself [in movies]. I used to think I was cool. Now, my standpoint is that I can't be fair. So I can't pass any judgment.

[on her former partner, Heath Ledger] His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time, and we know that he is with us still.

For so long, I felt like a walking open wound everywhere I went. There's this Joan Didion quote about being afflicted from an early age with a presentiment of loss. Did I come into the world like that? Or was I kind of gifted that?