Quotes from Elizabeth Reaser

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.

I love 'True Blood!'

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and uncomfortable in that world - maybe I'm just more butch than I realize! I have, however, been fortunate to have a number of great girlfriends. You don't meet as many girls as you do guys in my line of work, so I do cherish my friendships.

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

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

I love kids. My sister has four boys, and I'm obsessed with them.

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.

Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

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.

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

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