"How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers."

"I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies."

"I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour."

"I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever."

"Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process."

"Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them."

"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."

"It is a profound truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold — an essential principle for the reflective life."