The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

I keep everything that's private private.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun, I love changing up my hair.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

She knew what she was, but she wasn’t fully Unseelie. She was half human and that was the part that mattered the most.

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, definitely want to put your best foot forward.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.