I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me, like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

One of my girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want, ' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

There is honor in being a dog.

Bill Clinton and I are friends; we see each other on the speaking circuit. He likes to be visible. I don't. And I draw no judgment either way.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you