My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there's just not for women.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.