I say I'm a rebel. I'm continually fighting against [sexism]. I don't take parts because they're for the sexy girl. I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

I don't feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

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

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.