I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!

Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.