Surrounding Myself With Women Of Different Backgrounds

I Had A Tough Time Fitting In, As I Guess Most Kids Do. I Felt Like School Was Kind Of A Grand Opportunity To Figure Yourself Out And To Figure Out What You Wanted.

I'm Sure That There's Frustration That Comes With Wanting To Just Have A Normal Mom. But, I Don't Really Know If They See It As Any Different Than Any Other Problem You Might Have With A Parent. I Think Everybody Can Think About One Thing That Their Parents Used To Do, All The Time, That Would Embarrass You.

I Just Always Loved Mythology, Ever Since I Was A Kid. Greek Mythology Was Something I Remember Learning About In Fourth Grade, And Egypt, Too, And Something About Both Those Things Just Clicked With Me. I Just Thought They Both Were So Beautiful And Interesting To Learn About.

The Main Thing For Me Is Just The Length Of Time It Takes To Make A Movie. It's At Least A Year Of Just Talking About It, Talking About It With Yourself Or Your Director Or Your Other Castmates Or The Press, So You Just Want To Make Sure It's A Film That Although You Initially Feel This Pull Or This Drive To It, You Don't Really Have The Answers To Why You're Drawn To It. But It's More About Not Knowing The Answers To Certain Questions But Wanting To Go On The Journey Of Discovery To Find The Answers.

I Had Started Acting When I Was 7, And I Was Always Wrong. I Would Always Get To The Very End [of The Audition], But I Wasn't A Perfect Package Of One Thing. I Wasn't A Cliche, And It Always Worked Against Me. I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Play The Popular Girl, I Wasn't Mousy Enough To Be The Mousy Girl. Then There Was A Tv Show That Toni Collette Was Starring In. And When A Role To Play A Girl Who Was Struggling With Identity Came, I Thought: "oh, This Is What I Was Supposed To Do. Everything's Leading Up To This Moment." I Was 18. I Was Like, "this Is It." I Didn't Get It. And I Was Devastated.