The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.