My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

Magic is only magic when don’t know ‘how’, when you know it, it can be experienced everyday!!!

Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.

Whether people watch Doctor Who or not over here, everybody knows about it. It's a British icon, it's so part of the nation.

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

Error is worse than ignorance.