"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."

"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"Leap, and the net will appear."

"If you think you can do it, you can."

"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 to me and I want to be a part of it."

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

"I love older men."

"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."

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

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

"Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image."

"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 is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."

"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

"What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have."

"I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil."

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

"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 did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen."

"French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar."

"I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day."

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

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

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

"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."

"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile."

"I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time."