There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

Like freshly cut roses, I place life in a vase... of love.

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.