I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

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.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

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.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

You have to like the characters you play.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.