I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I just love getting dirty.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me