We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

I sometimes go to a movie and eat my popcorn and turn my brain off. I love those movies. But the movies I like to be in, for the most part, are the ones that challenge you.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.