I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

Coercing attitude drains your strength.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

Yes, I’ve killed! I’ve killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.

A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.