One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

I've had to find my sanity.

I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.