“I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.”

I have big feet. Do you know how embarrassing it is when you ask for a shoe and they look at you like, “No, we don’t make these heels for Bigfoot, sorry.”

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think youre a safe bet to do a similar role.

Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

I know that my look is more “toothpaste model” as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.

I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia – all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

It’s fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.

I love flying so much. I even airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can’t have emails go through. It’s undisturbed.

I try to remind myself that all of this could be over tomorrow, because I could wake up and magically be 35 feet tall and not be able to act in movies anymore.

I was in a movie for five minutes where I play tennis and I was given five tennis lessons for free. I never had a tennis lesson. I was like, that’s awesome! When else would I have taken up tennis?

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

I was always very dramatic – my family would probably use the word ‘dramatic’ – as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

I don’t even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

We really shouldn’t look like a church.’ I’ve heard that so much I want to vomit. ‘Why?’ I ask. ‘Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor’s office to look like a doctor’s office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?’

Tracking my fear of exam results and the other branch fears that appeared led me to the root: fearing I couldn’t make my parents happy

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

I’m insecure about everything, because I’m never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I’d like to look like.

If you listen to the radio, it’s all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There’s nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else’s.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.