I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child learn from incense How best to pray.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesnt worry me personally all that much.

I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!