I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

With any job the main thing that makes the job is the people.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

A true man hates no one.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!