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" I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others. "

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" Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun. "

" I'm fiercely protective of my privacy. "

" I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision. "

" I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do. "

" I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened. "

" Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am. "

" I love doing serious movies for adults. "

" It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl. "

" Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us. "

" I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' "

" Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them. "

" I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older. "

" You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing. "

" My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level. "

" I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet. "

" I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing. "

" When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose. "

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" My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life. "

" It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature. "

" My father and my mother separated when I was two. "

" One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate. "