The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.

If we really want to live we'd better start at once to try.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Clint Eastwood just runs an incredibly tight ship, but it's really laid back.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.