When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!
I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don’t on different types of films.
Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.
I always want to defeat supervillains – it’s just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I’m not into.
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body – meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, ‘Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.’ And I’ve had that relationship ever since.
The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.
I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can’t do anything to intimidate me.
You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it’s the people that I’ve met along the way, not the places I’ve been, that have opened my eyes.
What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake’s got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips – long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
I don’t intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there’s nothing else said about her, it just doesn’t hold a lot of interest for me.
It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.
One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I’m not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what’s around you.
I think there are certain people that you’ll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.
I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you’re feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.
As an actress people always tease me like: if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.