"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."

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"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."

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"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."

Career, Want

"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."

Time, Character

"I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director."

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"We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them."

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"I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best."

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"I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out."

Work, People, Order

"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that."

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"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."

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"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."

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"I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things."

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