And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

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.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.