It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

Explore. Search. Seek.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

If you think you can't, you're wrong and right

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.