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

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.

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.

Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'