I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

.. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.

Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.