It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

I look back and I look at all the opportunities that I've had to work really hard and really challenge myself, and I like to do things that scare me. I like to do things that I don't know if I'm going to be able to do. I need the help of talented people around me. I love that it's a collaboration.

My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.