I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

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.

She is such a health food nut she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.