The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.

Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.

I'm no mechanic but I can change my oil and I know what to do when I get a flat tire and I can hot-wire it in an emergency.

I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.