I've always been a good kid.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

We had doubles for some of the stuff but a lot of it had to do with there's certain hours that you can dive and then you can't dive for another certain, like 12 hours just for the air and stuff.

I love doing action.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

It's good to always do some sort of exercise.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

I've always been a good kid.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials.

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

Right now I'm working on the back handspring.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I try to change my physical appearance for every role.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'

There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

Results take time to measure.

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

Americans have discovered fear.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.