Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

The key to your success in the world is to discover the field of your gift

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

How old are you?” “Seventeen,” he answered promptly. “And how long have you been seventeen?” His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A while,” he admitted at last.