As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

I'm a fan of action movies.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

Information wants to be free. Believe it.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.