There's definitely a psychology to making you feel important and like you're part of the game. It's a very special quality, especially with a first-time director.

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

I don't actually go on the Internet that much.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.