Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother's clothes, dude!

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.