Actress

I work out with a trainer five days a week.

I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

I think escapism is really important.

I will not go on a blind date.

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.