"I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action."

“Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview With Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.434, Ballantine Books

“Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush”

“It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.”

“the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

Source : David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.160, Greystone Books

“The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.”

“Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.”