The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

Remember how we put stickers with your name on your pocessions that could be stolen.We didn't put a sticker on your innocence so don't lose it!

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Kayn began to speak as if she were reading his obituary. “I can see the paper now

Courage is action, not talk.

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.

Accessories are like vitamins to fashion

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.