I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

Sometimes in my life I feel like a bit of a sorceress who can't totally control all their power. I'm a Libra, so... Libra women are pretty magical.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

Surprise your doubts with action.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.