Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

As a strong woman, there are things I would never put up with.

When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

When I'm talking about a developing world, I also look at clean-water access - women who are more vulnerable to sexual violence when they're fetching water. And talking about what we have going on here, with our carbon footprints and our emissions, is just as important to me as figuring out how to provide clean water to people who need it in regions around the world.