Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.