You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow.

Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.

Moments fly and if you don’t fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.