Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

I can scare myself like a pro.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

Smile. It creates positive physiological change.