There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.