If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.

We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun.

I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.