"If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money."

"I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right."

"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."

"I'm not sad at all about turning 40."

"My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents."

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

"I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things."

"I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point."