Actress

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my closet and only see audition clothes: Brie looking older, Brie looking '60s, Brie looking '40s, Brie looking younger in the future.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.

I would never say no to comedy.

I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.

If I had my way, I would never do a leading role.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

There isn't anyone in my life who is going to get upset about how much travelling I have to do or whether or not I'm available for drinks that night.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.