You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.