Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

Sheftu, ” she whispered, “it's all over.”“Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning.

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."-Rayner Unwin

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.