That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.

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

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.