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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 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 find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

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.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

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 because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.