"I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years."
"I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest."
"I need alone time like I need air."
"What drives me crazy is that I can't bring my needle and thread on a plane. I really like to sew."
"I spent many nights crying myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look."
"I felt like a whore. You feel like they're paying to stare at your ass when you're walking away from the table." [on working as a waitress]
"I avoided the industry for so long because I resent it for so many reasons. There was no way that my ideas about life and morality were going to coincide with that industry, so there was no point in even playing with fire."
"You have to sacrifice something to get something. For me, fame is that sacrifice, because I never wanted it, and I still don't. It's something I have to live with."
"I cared very much what the church thought of me and what God thought of me, what my parents and my peers thought of me and what the entire world thought of me. Because I felt that was my spiritual responsibility, and that was something I had to let go of when I realized I'm responsible to myself and to God and that whatever anyone else in the world thinks — even if they're the church — does not matter."
"I used to watch the actors and actresses and think: 'I'm am SO glad I am not you,' " she says, laughing. " 'I am so glad. I can just sit back here, do my work and not have anyone pay any attention to me. You poor things.' Cut to three years later."
"I'm curious: Can you be respected as an actress and show your ass? Do you have to show your ass?"
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