Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

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.

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 looked like a boy for a long time. Now I feel like a woman.

I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.