There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.
Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.
Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.
I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
It is so important to think for yourself.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.
The element of harmony is super important.
Every game in the NFL is important.
Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.
Childhood reading is so important.
Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
