It's incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.

I swim laps, which is nice because I'm weightless in the water.

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

That's the charm of Deadpool. He's charmingly annoying, and he'll be the first to admit that.

It's rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.

'Gotham' was something that just popped up for me.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

Sci-fi fans are a different breed. They are so loyal, it's unbelievable. They've seen every sci-fi thing I've done, and then they started watching 'Homeland' because I was in it.

I feel like I go in on a lot of things that I want to be going in for.

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

I think I'm more the method acting school.

I've done some sitcoms here and there, but nothing long term.

I had a very liberal family.

My mom never cared if I came home dirty from playing outside with my brother. If I got my dress muddy, or my jeans were ripped, or I got blood on something. But I think a lot of girls have a different experience.

My first role was in a Nativity play. My mom was playing Mary, and I was crying backstage, so she brought me out as Baby Jesus.

Going from one kid to two kids is insane.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.

Reggae is vile.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.