In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

I'm a total performer.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

And if at first you don't succeed, then dust yourself off and try again!

I stay true to myself and my style and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Its Friday and Im ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.