I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

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!