I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

I think I’m quite a lazy person, actually. If I’m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

The depth of your art is subject to originality

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

Growing your leadership capacity demands personal effectiveness. Being effective is the ability to do the right thing at all times, no matter the cost.

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.

It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.