Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.