I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

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.

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

I come from a military family.

I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don't know that well.

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.