Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

Nurturing is not complex. Its simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.

By the time I'm 40, the hope is that I'll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we've brought along the way.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming 'socialized medicine' as the slippery slope to 'rationing of health care,' 'death panels' and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company?

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease.

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.