When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

I'm not really an actress.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.