On the response to Hustlers: "I was really taken aback by the reaction. Not that I didn't think it was good. I was proud of my performance, but that hadn't happened to me since Selena. It'd been more than 20 years since I'd gotten those kinds of accolades."
On playing a pop star similar to herself in Marry Me: "It was very meta . . . It was a cathartic experience, and I had to constantly remind myself: Put everything that you've lived here. I play a pop star who has her own brand and has been around for a while and has been in and out of bad relationships. I would say to myself, 'You don't have to act here. You just have to show your pure essence and it's gonna work. It'll be right.'"