I picked up an issue of 'Cosmopolitan' the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, "I need to get better at interviews." The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, "I do that every day."

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

Sometimes I feel like a vampire

I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. And what I discovered in the process is, it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and you learn to see through many other people's eyes.

If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?

I'm excited to be seen as sexy. But not slutty.

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.