I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Failure is not defeat. It is the start of lifelong learning adventure.

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.