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

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.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

When we get too comfortable we stop dreaming.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

'Have you ever considered changing the name Nasty Gal?' is probably the dumbest question I've ever heard.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Being the best is great youre the number one. Being unique is greater youre the only one.

I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.