I'm older and have a kid, I like success on my own, but I always enjoyed all my parts playing the fifth wheel. I mean, just loved it. There was such freedom in it and I still got to enjoy watching everyone work.

I remember my first meeting with Guillermo Del Toro - he couldn't have been warmer, but I always had a kind of immaturity about me dealing with people that were in charge. Not really knowing how to conduct myself. And I got on the floor and curled up into a ball under a desk, which is so weird - as I was doing it, I was like, "Oh, my god, you're a freak. Get up. What are you doing?" And I looked at him like, "I'm so sorry," and he's like, "No, it's natural. Why wouldn't you want to do that?" He's just the most giving person and made me feel not like a freak.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?