I had all these preconceived ideas about Mary Magdalene and about religion in general, a lot of baggage that made me hesitate, it wasn't until speaking to Garth Davis and looking at the story as an adult, without that baggage from Catholic school, that I could strip it back and see it with fresh eyes.

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I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

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If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that’s an important lesson.

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I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

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I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.

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I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness

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I don't know what I'm searching for. I haven't found it. I don't have a job, and I don't have anything lined up. I don't know what I'm looking for.

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There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

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I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

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I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

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I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

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I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

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Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

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On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.

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I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

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I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be.

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I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

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Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

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I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films.

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I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages

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I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming

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