My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

Winning, to me, is relief; losing is like dying. It's gut-wrenching.