I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

I love being in love.

I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it's supposed to.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

I'm not really a big candy eater.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.