You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

I love working closely with people.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.