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.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

No matter how many times you think you have failed, there is always another opportunity for you to succeed.

So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.