It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life.

Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.