Rachel Weisz

I’ve always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

You just have to play every scene honestly and forget about a reaction and what the audience is going to think. I think the more seriously you take something, the more funny it might be.

I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.

[on her parents] They’re very harsh critics and they’ve often said to me: “That was shit, you were crap’, but this is the first time (after he saw her as “Amy Foster” on Swept from the Sea) my father said to me: ‘I think one day you’ll be a good actress”!

The celebrity thing… I don’t want to sound as if I absolutely don’t want it because that’s not true. If you’re in the entertainment business, you have to be honest. There’s something alluring about it…

I’ve known Daniel since I was 22. We did a play together in London many years ago.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

You don’t just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at ‘SNL’ is writing to go after someone.

I have just been saying whatever the f**k I want. That’s always a breath of fresh air… everyone is so filtered these days. I’m just back to being reckless and being a Southside, Jamaica, Queens, New York rapper

My worst habit is speaking to much.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

Music means communication to me. I say ‘listen you people out there, listen to my music, let’s be one.’ Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can’t define music ’cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it

This industry’s very fickle, you’re only as big as your last record, you know? And we intend on releasing some good records yet, so we don’t intend on going anywhere.

When it comes down to the music, it’s just you and the microphone. It’s not you and the record execs.

News is not a game show. You don’t win a car if you happen to be right.

Student debt is like HPV – if you go to college, you are most likely to get it, and it will follow you for the rest of your life.

I was wearing my best gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians. So yea, I was pretty cool.

Working for me is like a gift!

There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

I’ve been using the fan websites as I was acting it, because they know so much about the books, and it’s really helpful as a resource.