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" Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined. "

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" Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true. "

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" There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die? "

" My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia. "

" Well, there's two things that happen when people experience something, whether it's a song, a television show, a film, a book or any piece of art. It connects them to a certain part of their life and whatever was going on at that time in their life. "

" It's important for me, when looking at a role, to decide whether or not to take the journey of that character. Will I grow as an actress? And will I grow as a person? "

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" I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead. "

" I'm starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, 'I'm not going to do any more interviews.' I definitely understand that. "

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" You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set. "

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" I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds. "