Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.