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

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?

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.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

Believe in your sacred self: strength of your being.

The gods help those who help themselves.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Man is an imagining being.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.