Occupation: Actress Birth: August 20, 1974
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job..
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting..
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street,….
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges..
I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl..
I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have..
It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is always for me the most chal….
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an ….
Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress..
I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how ….
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice..
It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy..
I was blonde most of my life and I had to dye my hair for a role. I couldn’t believe the difference when I went red. I just felt ‘wow, I’m home’. It’….
I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just….
The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors..
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a s….
I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour..
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?.
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality becaus….
I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear..
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways..