In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

It’s the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what’s beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.

[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.