You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.