Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

Working with them was a great experience. Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie and Ray Liotta - they were all bang-up.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

Hopefully, I can continue to do anything I want. I just want to do things that I'm passionate about in this life.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

You know what freaks me out? Having your personal life live-tweeted so that everyone can make fun of you forever.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.

There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time.

I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.

A perfect schedule is to be able to do something dark and then go into something lighter to ease up a little bit.

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.

I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that's being put out there. I'll do anything with David Wain.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

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