When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.