I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Tomorrow is another opportunity to relentlessly and confidently push harder with your dream. You definitely haven't given it your all until you are living in its reality

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

Don't force yourself to go party if you're not in the mood.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.