I admire so many women, it's hard to choose, but I've always loved Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Mia Farrow.

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.