When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Nice is the worst word.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

Its fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad and do all that but there is a certain point where youre just like Oh Id love to work at home.

Lipstick is for when you've had a shit day and you need red lipstick to face the world.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection how different elements relate to each other you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.

I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

We're a very close family. Nothing changes.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind dont matter and those who mind dont matter.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

Happiness cannot be traveled to owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A.... push shuffle and anything will come on.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.