I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

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.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.