My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you