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.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.