I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

120 million of us place the big bang 2, 500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!