I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

Growth is never an event, it's a process.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Even when I did Ryan Gosling's movie (Lost River), we had a very '80s kind of vibe and I would say for two or three months after that, I was dressing in a very sort of '80s way.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

It's always better to be doing.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.