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.

I am who I am and I am what I am. And it's beautiful. And it's okay even if it doesn't look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.

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

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.