I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that!

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Be happy in your body. It's the only one you've got, so you might as well like it.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

I'm obsessed with shoes. I must have hundreds of pairs...That reminds me- I need to go shopping!

My doctor was like, 'Any questions?' And I was like, 'Yes! When can I drink please?!' I just want a margarita.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.