Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

I personally like to do independent films.

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts you at your worst.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

I get to remind myself and other people to be yourself, to rock you who you are, and don't worry about if it fits.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

I'm not a chui-mui.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.