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Sex addiction is a subject that should be discussed
I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.
I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"
People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.
I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.
On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.
I want to be in 'Glee,' but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.
Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.
It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.
I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well.
I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!
When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier.
I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.
I don't know why people are so down on the Best Western. They have the best sweet potato fries I've ever had.
I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.
I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.
I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.
I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.
It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.
I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.
If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.
You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.
I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.
There's always the things that you think are going to be tough. I've been nude once, and I was like, "Oh, that's going to be a nightmare," and actually that was fine.
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?
I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually try coke if I had to play a character who took coke.
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.
With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.
It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.
I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
I don't really think about roles - "dream roles." It's always about who's gonna be the person on the screen or who's gonna be the person on the stage and who's gonna direct it and put it all together.
From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn't do anything 'cause there was just nothing that was significantly different from the things I'd done before. There was just nothing to explore.
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.