As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.

When I was modeling as a teenager, I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.

If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

All stories are ultimately about the fall.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

I prefer clarity over agreement

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

I want to make America better!

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.