I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
I am hoping for a long career.
What doesn’t feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be – because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
Not to settle. If you’re not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.
You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.
I’m more of a guy’s girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don’t bicker or sit down and do my nails.
It’s insecure, and it’s immature.
I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won’t fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.
I love skin. I don’t believe the body is something to hide.
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
It’s ok to say, ‘this is what I want’ and go after it.
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don’t want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I’m looking at magazines and I’m reading comics, and I’m asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.
On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone’s girlfriend here on Earth because that’s a bit of a canker sore.
Before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be.
For the actor’s wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character’s gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.
As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.