I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.