1. “I have a fiercely independent spirit.”
2. “I’ve always been a private person and I’ve always valued mu private life.”
3. “Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.”
4. “When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can’t help but have some kind of bias.”
5. “If I were a man, I’d be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.”
6. “You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are.”
7. “I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.”
8. “Every pound for a woman in real world is even pounds for an actress.”
9. “I’ve got a soft spot for true individuals.”
10. “It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.”
11. “All I’ve ever needed is myself.”
12. “Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.”
13. “If you want to do something, you find a way.”
14. “I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you’re inadvertently admitting it’s wrong.”
15. “I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.”
16. “Every article I’ve read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.”
17. “Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative: it provided both rebellion and peace.”
18. “Even though I don’t believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.”
19. “I don’t feel like millions of people are wrong because they love who they love or they were born how they were born.”
20. “One of my biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, an knowing you can’t do anything to your performance once you’ve .”
21. “I approach all my movies with an open mind and a willingness to dive in and do what’s asked of me.”
22. “I want to be an artist. I don’t want to be celebrity.”
23. “Injustice can never be stood for.”
24. “You feel better when you’re eating food that retains nutritional value.”
25. “You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven’t found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.”
26. “I come from a place where I find it hard to label.”
27. “Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character iin a movie or otherwise.”
28. “It’s rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.”
29. “Strength and independence are always something that I’m drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.”
30. “I’m keeping an open mind as always, because that’s what you have to do.”
