The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.

If today is all you have to live, what will you do?

You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

When the sky is totally covered by the dark clouds, be strong enough to see the bright stars beyond them!

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?