I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

If called by a panther, don't anther.

I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.