I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.

On a fundamental level - I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.