I just like short hair on women I think it’s cool.
If you can’t sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn’t have the strength, I didn’t have the flexibility, I didn’t have the stamina, I didn’t have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.
Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman I think she’s amazing.
Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it’s been an amazing experience. But I’m not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.
I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don’t accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
I’m from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.
Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
There’s nothing more frustrating than when fans use a nickname. That’s like people you don’t know using names from people that you’re intimate with. Like if my mom has a nickname and a fan finds it out and starts using it, that’s creepy.
When I got the job on ‘Lost,’ I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.
Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.
I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.
When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine’s Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.