I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

Children begin by loving their parents

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

You can not stop you from being who you are.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!