The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

Sinning when alone is easy but Worshipping alone is difficult.

Without strength can we work?

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

Im a Harry Potter fan, a Twilight fan, and I think The Hunger Games surpasses them all.

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.