So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

Kiss me back into place and remind me why we can't be together.

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?