I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.

The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they can watch someone have their brains blown out? My son and I were watching an ad on the television the other day. And it said, "Rated R." He said, "What does 'rated R' mean?" I said, "God, I don't know. You can't watch it unless you're over a certain age."

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other.

There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.