Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days.

Who knows where the road will lead us Only a fool would say, But if you let me love you I'm sure to love you all the way.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

We all know how to be a child.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.