The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.

Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.