Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

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.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All

The best of humanity is philosophy.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.