Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

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

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.