When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never gonna get in, don't bother. They don't want you." I said, "I'm going to try." And I got in! But I wouldn't be the woman I am if I hadn't had that conflict to overcome. It has given me an underdog feeling all my life.

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.