Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I'm really big on hormones.

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

The business of government is justice.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.