Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I’m happy.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an...

I don’t want to spend so much time obsessing about myself. I love to cook and I love to eat. And yet, if I am not careful, I could be considered chubby in the film...

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.

It’s an amazing thing, really, it’s a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It’s such a beautiful language...

I love my dad, although I’m definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. … But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

I was staying with some friends in England, and it was New Year’s. My husband, Roy, and I were sleeping, and I woke to the sound of our friend’s two little boys. They were going...

I am amazed I have any fans at all!!! It makes me feel so good to know that I do. It makes me feel really good inside to know that there are some people out...

I just think it’s really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don’t necessarily take them really seriously – I don’t even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don’t think that’s...

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.

The age I’m at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

I don’t think a lot of really good films get seen.

It was a very good experience. It wasn’t just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn’t on a diet.

I don’t live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person. . . . It’s not good to have a...

All my boys make me laugh.

I think,it was a smart idea to shoot it all at once, because the characters will be much more complete and convincing. We were living as those characters for a year and a half.

Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.

I guess what I like most about NY is that it feels like home to me. I was born here in 1977 and have lived here, on and off, my whole life. I feel very...

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

It’s very funny, and we really laughed a lot while we were making it and I could always tell how happy the director was by how hard he laughed behind the monitor.

It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It’s one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it’s my...

I am scared of becoming a mother.

I don’t think I’m particularly beautiful at all.

I believe that a family is very important. You must have someone to come to after work to forget the stressful day. With Roy I have someone like that.

I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can’t sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

Armageddon was not an acting experience. That’s why I was depressed. It was about the effects and not about the performances. I had the really rough part of being the emotional person who’s like, you...

There’s pressure all the time. It’s stressful going to a premiere and having to look perfect, and everybody scrutinizes what you’re wearing. It’s scary. There’s so much emphasis put on the physical.

I think it’s healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.

When I finally saw the film, I was floored because it was more than I even expected it would be, and I already had very high expectations.

It’s cool to be compared to her, but honestly who gives a damn. [About the comparison to Liz Taylor]

It’s terrifying. It’s so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you’re the one standing behind the...

I’m not perfect at all.

One Night at McCool’s

Life excites me. I’m not talking about appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting, you know ?

Love what I do and I have no regrets, but the people I care about are by far the most important thing. I would kill for them. They make my life worth living.

I’ve been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It’s hard work.