With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

I'm a fan of action movies.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.

There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.