I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

One man is not enough.

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.

I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.

First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

You just have to forgive them for being men.

You have to be very careful with women friends.

Sex appeal is not on purpose.

I don't date. The thought of that is so yuck.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

I'd like roles with more depth.

Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.

There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.

You can't help but be scrutinized, so I might as well be doing something while I'm being scrutinized.

The older you get the farther from the camera you need to be.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil.

Great wine works wonders and is itself one

The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do a lot of television writing to develop new ideas for shows.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

... as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

Only the small things in life are important

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

Universe is nothing, but human thought.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.