It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

When I was shooting a movie in Montreal, it was freezing. If you take a little bit of Aquaphor and dab it on your face, it keeps your skin looking fresh. I dubbed it Aqua For Everything.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

When you have something that close to you, you want to make sure that you're aware of it.

Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

Never allow your reality to be influenced by another's listless view of you.

Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."