I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. Ive always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

I adore Quentin Tarantino. The Kill Bill series is my favorite.

...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...

Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.

I only smoke maybe a nug a day.