I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

I've got a head of hair better than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

If you'd see my schedule, you'd know I have no time to slow down.

The pop world has really opened its doors.