There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me.

Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

This business is hard. People and producers and studios and finance guys get caught up in saying, "Women don't sell movies," or "This person doesn't sell foreign," or "You have to attach guys first," or "People don't want to see women do this." I've heard those things so many times that I've actually heard myself say them, a number of times.

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me.

When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met.