I believe in myself, and I've always had people behind me who believed in me. With that, you can do anything.

I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?

I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.