I have to remind my dad, ‘Journalists – no matter how many cigars they smoke with you – are not your friends, so don’t talk to them.’

Whatever happens, I owe him, … He’s right there when you need him, and I’m not ashamed to say I needed him a lot.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I look at scripts as a whole, and often that gets me in trouble,

I think I’ve become more comfortable about being a human being

Every casting director I’ve met is a woman.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I’ve worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell...

I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people...

I love that woman. She’s like a great athlete, like Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. They make it look effortless.

It’s [beauty] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

Everything’s a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There’s no guarantee.

Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.

I kind of bought into thinking I would like to do images that are great images rather than just a model who sells clothes, … I didn’t think of them as pornographic. I didn’t think...

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do it if it means something...

Toronto has such a nice balance as far as the films they show there,

I’m not a big script reader, but I went home and read it in one go and I was really excited,

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I’m...

I’m a pretty girl who’s a model who doesn’t suck as an actress.

I’ve pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

I’ll stop smoking, I’ll stop shopping and I’ll wear a bra. People think I’m trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It’s really that I’m a tomboy at heart.

It was respect all around, … Coming from the top, beginning with Curtis. It was the best working experience I’ve ever had. It definitely inspired me to look fresh at my career and the direction...

I can’t say this enough, I’m totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don’t think it’s a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I’m happy with it.

I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We’d be laughing and having...

It’s important to be active in the causes that are important to you … That’s how we make changes in this world.

My character, she’s kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people and find her way without having to work. And she’s kind of coming to the end of...

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I’m going to play and what they...

With Hurricane Katrina, the war that we’ve been engaged in and all the politics that are happening, maybe America actually is starting to go, ‘We need something more’, … I really hope so.

I was expecting like 10 kids to show up. It’s exciting. A few of the kids came up afterward and said, ‘This is so great, this is something I’ll remember.’ Hopefully, it’s something they’ll be...

Gangs of New York.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

Maggie slept with him because she wanted to hurt Rose, to get back at her, … Also Rose had just kicked her out and she was hoping by creating this chaos that Rose would have...

People think I’m trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It’s really that I’m a tomboy at heart.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

It’s cute when you meet young boys and they’re bright red and breathing like they’ve run up the stairs, but they’re just sitting outside the door. I’ve had phone calls in the middle of the...

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.

He’s very charismatic, captivating,

I don’t say that I won’t do nudity for other people’s benefit. It has nothing to do with other people’s, it’s just what I’m comfortable with. I can’t say this enough, I’m totally comfortable with...

Whenever I don’t’ have to wear makeup, it’s a good day.

There’s Something About Mary

There are scripts I’ve read where I really like the character but there might be some content that I’m uneasy with. You have to make the decision whether you want to put that out there.

Who better than Cameron would understand in our society the way how good looks can be exploited? What was exciting was having her show the flip side of that, the fear and the way that...

I haven’t been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it’s like people are trying to find something out about me, I don’t. If we are just sitting having a conversation, being real human beings with one another it...