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 would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

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.

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

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.

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

There was a beautiful time...

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

David Ortiz is an icon. He is one of a kind. But we'll do our best job to replace the offensive aspect, however we can.

The universe is holding congress with itself.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.