Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming,as drought-making as it is life-giving.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.