Actress

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

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 dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best.