When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.

I have a lot of fun. I'm passionate about what I do. I really love that.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

let your haters be your motivators

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.

Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

A good man who did a bad thing.

If I was to transfer abroad at some stage, then it would only be to Manchester United

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.