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My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

Archers are pretty focused.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.