It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.

Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.