A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It's not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out of love, and back in love.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

I try each day, each month, each year to become a better and better person and to be good to the people I love and let them know how much I appreciate them.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.