I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

The is no greater pain than the one you cause yourself when you let yourself down when a good chance present itself for you to advance your life!

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.