Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

To Live Out The Kingdom Is A Passion For Life

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.