Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

God will constantly send people to you who need the fruit of your ministry

Positive spirit, positive strength.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.