"I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. And I'd beat her, too!"

"I'll make it real simple, I'm a 36-C. In the game, she's a double-D. In the movie, she's a D. We split the difference...[the movie Croft] is much more athletic, and she has smaller breasts, but she's still Lara Croft, so there."

"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."

"Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!"

"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."

"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

"Honestly, I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny."

"Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman."

"I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess."

"Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."

"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."

"I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that."

"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine."

"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."

"I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know."

"I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia [for tomb raider]. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful. And barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. Because I feel like me. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody just loves you, and when you make somebody happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world."

"When I did Girl, Interrupted, I didn't know how people were going to take that character. I didn't know if anybody else would respond to her. And if nobody responded to her, then they'd agree with the statement of the movie, which is that people like her ? and a bit of her is like me- that the world would be better off without them. People wish that she would be dead- that's what the other characters say to her. And I thought if people agree with then when they this movie, it's going to hurt me so bad. And then the most amazing thing happened. People understood her."

"That's what I discovered during Girl, Interrupted. I felt that character was really honest, and it was awful for other people. People didn't really want that." She looks at you, and says, "I'm quite honest." Uh-huh, you say, but most people aren't. "And that's so strange," she replies. "Because then if they're accepted, they're accepted for something they're not, really. Or if they're loved, it's going to be an effort their whole life 'cause it's not really for who they are. That's going to hurt at the end of the day. I know where I stand with everything. And I have no intention of hurting anybody. I don't judge people. So there's no reason I can't be really honest. Then I get myself in trouble."

"I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do. But I've never liked... Everybody thought I was really sexual."

"I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!"

"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"

"I would like to be open with the public. I would like to not keep secrets or be careful when I talk. I don't want to have to plan things ... I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free. And I won't."

"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."

"I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes. It's different being with another woman because it produces a different sexual spark - it's a little dangerous and exciting. I loved it when I shaved my head for Gia because woman kept wanting to touch it, and it became this very sexual thing, having no hair. I believe I get these sexually ambiguous parts because I love women, and not in a way that's superficial.""No one can make sense of it because it makes no sense"

"I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me."

"I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It's clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. He's focused on his music and career. I'm focused on my baby. It comes down to what's important to you." - on her split from husband Billy Bob Thornton

"There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas."