As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

There's no need to tell me who you are

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

How do I get better once I've had the best?

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.