Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.

I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

I love accents.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

I am an unpredictable journey.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.