I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'