Coffee makes me go crazy.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

If it’s a good day, I get ‘The New York Times’ on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I’m eating.

As an actor, what I’m finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that’s really fun to play with.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth – to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

I’d love to do theater. I’ve done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

And I never thought about how the lights don’t go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn’t know about prison.

I love Ben Affleck so much. He’s an amazing director.