I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.