My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your face is always the one that's out there in front of the camera, and any number of things can happen to you once you've done your work. It can be edited badly, it can be distributed badly, or it can not be distributed at all. And I've certainly experienced that; every actor has.