I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

We all have different languages

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.