I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no rules.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.