I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well they'll rally when times go bad.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Socialism is always wrong.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.