I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away.

The painting has a life of its own

Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours.

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?

Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.