New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

Haters will unwittingly give you the inspiration you need to conquer your great obstacle of destiny if you did not give up

Elizabeth served herself to Vlad upon the Lazy Susan (Susan wasn’t lazy. She was actually dead." — Bats 2015

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I love a woman who can out-eat me.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law.

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.