My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.