An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
It’s cute how I used to think this ‘barely holding it together’ feeling was temporary.
I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.
This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.
I can’t cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.
I don’t usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
If you tell a guy you don’t like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that’s a red flag.
Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That’s not to say humble people don’t exist there, but ambition seems really important.
I’m the person who wouldn’t send back my food even if I got steak when I’d ordered fish.
The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don’t know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.
I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.
Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I’m gonna eat when I get off work.
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn’t get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I’m wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I’m gonna pay rent.
I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I’ll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I’ve kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal’s wife and a freshman in college in the same year.
I rarely get recognised. It’s always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
With any other movie, you’re entering new territory, so it’s quite different to be involved in something where it’s the same characters, and the same people.
I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do ‘A Little Night Music’ out of the New York City Opera.
My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I’ve been really lucky to walk away from the ‘Twilight’ series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it’s like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word ‘star’ just doesn’t apply.