I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

The sea never dries for it has so many friend

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.