Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!

Leave Your Comfort Zone, If You Want To Accomplish Something.

I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.