You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.