I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.

I'm a big karaoke fan and I also love Justin Bieber unashamedly.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

And, look, I'm sorry if I have blond hair and blue eyes and my boyfriend looks like a vampire. What do you want me to do about it?

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.

An ideal world inhabited by carefree people is nothing more than a utopia.

At the core of your being, you are spiritual, limitless, and beautiful. To enjoy this you be mindful and openly love yourself.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America.

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.