When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.
You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.
Nobodys perfect. And if you think they are, youre sadly mistaken.
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.
I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.
My failures has helped me as much as my successes.
You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.
You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.
You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.
I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.
I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.
As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.
I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.
I think all actors have addictive personalities.
You can give the greatest performance possible, but if you don't have a director who's pointing the camera in the right direction and an editor who's editing it properly, it doesn't matter what you do. The director and the editor are the most important people. Not the actors. Sometimes the writer is important. But if you don't have a good director, you can't have a good production.
I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.
I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.
I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.
With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie.
My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
I think what qualitiy make for good directors is being able to articulate what you want; it can cause problems with a lack of communication. I'm not an actor who requires much talking to a director, I don't want to sit down and discuss a scene for hours and hours; that would bore me.
A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.
