If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner.

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.

I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'

I like being a woman, not a girl.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion because not only do we tolerate our religious differences we celebrate them.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.