But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

I like to take a character and develop it.

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about.

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.

'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.

Because of language, man has access to the past and the future. He can express the true and the untrue. Language helps him understand both what is and what could be.

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them. As an actress, you get to go to these events and wear their things - it's fun, but it is what it is. I don't put a lot of time into it, but I respect what they do.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn't see those guys walking around like that.

When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.

In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I've done, I can always claim it was part of the additional weirdness of the story.

I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.