I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.

Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.

Life is too short to hold regrets. Once it's done, you cannot regret it.

We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.

I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.

I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.

I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

'Longmire' is an incredibly hard shooting schedule because the locations are usually an hour away every morning, and I come home every weekend. I fly back to L.A. for about 26 hours a weekend, just to touch base back at home. It's a lot of work. It's four really intense months.