I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.