I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.