The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

There should not be any excuse. If we don’t like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let’s go beyond using lame excuses...

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.