Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I'm not single, I'm busy. That's my line.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

He's just not that into you if he only wants to see you when he's drunk. If he likes you, he'll want to see you when his judgment isn't impaired.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.