Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.