I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

The hover cars were terrifying. I manage to make it even more terrifying by having food poisoning on that day as well. Hover cars you can't get out of very easily or quickly, so that held a whole extra element of risk for me."

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.