Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

I love a lassie a bonnie bonnie lassie She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather The bonnie bloomin' heather Mary ma Scotch Blue-bell.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.