I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.
I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.
I've always loved being a student.
When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.
Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.
I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.
I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.
When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.
'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
I think there's something unique in the fact that her powers come from the same thing that powers him, and that is how we've made them have that kind of... that specifically in common, as opposed to it being something else that the comics kind of created, which has been pure romance. But they do have something uniquely special because of that.
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
I think part of that comes from time's passed, and she's been in an environment where training is part of the thing. It's not like we do a montage of her discovering her powers like in every X-Men film but yeah, there's no montage. But she does have these new abilities that we pick her up with.
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.
In my acting class there was this acting exercise going on, and I remember asking a buddy, "Do you ever do this at your apartment when no one's home? Do you ever act out these hypothetical moments?" And he goes, "No, Lizzie, because that's called crazy." Whatever, I was 20 and doing it so who cares.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
You want everyone to succeed in your family.
