I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won’t watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’
I played this character twice in live action, and now I’ve become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn – I’ve never been a drawn character before.
We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we’ve done right by them. It’s the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members – that looks normal.
If it isn’t a success, that still wouldn’t be grounds for divorce.
Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?
This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
Archery is something that I took up later and didn’t know I had a natural aptitude for.
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won’t talk to you.
I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate...
I watch very little television, actually. There’s so many shows I want to watch and then I know I’ll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.
The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
Obviously, movies don’t almost ever shoot in sequence.
My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.
I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.
When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business – my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.
The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you know, “Ford is a good car. Disney makes good movies that are good for kids and safe.”
I watched a lot of series. I didn’t watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan’s Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.