Actress

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.