The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.

My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.