The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.

I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a little old to be on a kiddy ride. Absolutely terrified. Thought I was going to die.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible

I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

I think I'm a million different faces

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon