I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

You are the Magician.You are the alchemist of your life. You have the power to manifest the highest vision of your life.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.