“And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.”

I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.

I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it’s not something I want to think about every day.

I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia – my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly and I don’t.

You bring yourself to every role, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.

I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.

It’s very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I’m perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

I see the world through my eyes. It’s sometimes a strange world.

I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

I think it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all need a bit of romance.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.

Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

We’re all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we’re just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.

And now I’m at the national level and that doesn’t happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I’m very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.