It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.