Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that’s them just understanding themselves better and better.

I can’t think of anything that anyone has ever accomplished without having some sort of self-discipline. Without knowing how to work for it. Without learning how to earn it. I talk to my friends who...

They are our storytellers – our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth,

I love older men.

I don’t even own a TV because I think it’s the devil.

They kind of give an opportunity to everybody. You get the best of the best there. It’s a good standard to be held up against, and it’s very flattering to be in that festival.

Matt and I had sort of been looking for a project to do, and when the opportunity to do this came up, the timing was just right. It was great, being on the same set...

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through, … The grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else’s shoes; they don’t want to be...

I’ve banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

After a hard days work, it’s nice to go back to the trailer and see him [her cat] sitting there waiting for me.

Well, I saw 10 minutes of ‘Love Actually’ the other day and I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s in love with his friend’s wife.’ He never talks to her but talks to his friend...

I’ve been noticing gravity since I was very young.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head...

I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’

Whatever happens, I owe him, … He’s right there when you need him, and I’m not ashamed to say I needed him a lot.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I look at scripts as a whole, and often that gets me in trouble,

I think I’ve become more comfortable about being a human being

Every casting director I’ve met is a woman.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I’ve worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell...