Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Let not your heart be troubled.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.