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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

If I hadn't become an actor, I would've pursued a race-car driving career.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it's fun, and that's how I grow as an actor.

I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.