Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role. That's what I do; I become things. Use your imagination.

I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.