Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

I live a normal life.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuc

Religion separate people while the issues of life that all people share in common, bring them together.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

The only thing that is guaranteed in life is that we're all gong to die at some point, so it's important to make the most of now.

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.