Elizabeth Reaser

Eventually, I realized that I would not have a life until I buckled down. Once I did, I auditioned for Juilliard - and that changed everything.

I love 'True Blood!'

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.

I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing, because you're incorporating all these new things.

I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

I was 16. In the middle of the night, I took a taxi to the Detroit train station - or maybe it was the Pontiac train station? - and got on a train to Chicago, then transferred to a train to San Diego where my boyfriend was living at the time.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog.

I was really bad until I was 18.

I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.

I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments.

It is hard to date anywhere... I think you just get a little older and hopefully a clearer idea of who you - I don't know. It is hard.

I have dated an actor or two. I've tried not to, but then, I don't want to be racist against actors.

I pretty much adore all my exes. I try to stay friends with them if I can.

I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?

To me, there's so much we don't understand about our world, and I think it's really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with.

It's surprisingly hard to play a vampire and feel believable. I mean, you want to be able to at least believe yourself.

I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.

Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.

I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.

In my free time, I love to lay in bed.

The Cullens, they're an interesting group of vampires. They're all really good but kind of bad. I mean, they are still vampires.