I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment.

We cannot control how others treat us but we can control the way we react to them.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.