I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.