I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

I'm a fan of action movies.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.

As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.