Actress

I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.

My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

I'm an actress, but I'm not stupid.

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a stay-at-home father, so if he wants to be on my health plan, or tax wise, or maybe on paper we want to have our I's dotted and our T's crossed, but emotionally, neither of us really feels the need for it.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'

I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.

I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.