Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

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.

Faith Food Fun

The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously...

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.