Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
I think penguins are cute.
I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.