I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the callTo storm or fire the world must fallAn oath to keep with a final breathand foes bear arms to the doors of death

She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She has you there.

Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.