Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.