I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

All my boys make me laugh.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I'm not perfect at all.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

I love observing people.

I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

Beauty is not defined by the size of you jeans.

I love to eat.

It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

Buffalo wings and cider is all I need.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Donny Hathaway's 'For All We Know' is the song that I've sung the longest. It is a beautiful song about living in the moment and appreciating this very second. That is the song I did for my 'Rent' audition.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

The story is my favorite form.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

Every chess master was once a beginner.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.

I actually have a piece of the wardrobe of most of the characters that I've played. I always ask for something.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost