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

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.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.