Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc

It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.

Even the president is watching the fight.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.