I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Gospel of the Kingdom has not been fully expanded upon to this generation of believers

The library in 2020 will be ruled by geeks. In my happy vision for the future, libraries are ruled by benign geek librarian overlords and the world is full of awesome.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.