There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

I got to work with Jared Leto. Jared's cute. Oh, I'll tell you. Jared will make you doubt about your sexuality.

I'm a big old romantic.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.

We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.