I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

I’d like to be the moon in your sky.

If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.