It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.

It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.

I like a girl who laughs a lot. That's my main thing.

My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.

I am in control of my life.

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains in the waves of the sea in the body of the woman we love.

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.