've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before [the wedding]? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later."

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

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

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.