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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 like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 love doing serious movies for adults.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

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

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.

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.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

She's a (lesbian), but with a body like that she could get any man she wants.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.