» “I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.”

» “I have no idea what to do. People are taking my picture, and I’m just, like, standing there blinking. I’m so not suave.” – on becoming famous

» “I’ve always felt like a tomboy but especially beside Christina Applegate and Cameron Diaz. God bless anyone who looks at the three of us in one frame and still finds me sexy.” – about working on The Sweetest Thing

» “I was a smoker for about 20 years.”

» “My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn’t get any better than Spock.”

» “None of us are really these sexy perfect people you see on TV. We’re really someone you can really relate to, really accessible. I mean that’s not really something I wanted to say about myself.”

» “I guess there’s got to be someone who gets dumped on and I’d rather be that someone than have someone else be that someone.”

» “I remember filming the first ‘Hellboy’ in Prague and I was so lonely. I Ended up rooting around on the internet. I looked at some comments that people had written and I had no idea that I was so disliked! And you know, that becomes your consciousness. I told [director] Guillermo [del Toro] what I’d done and he said, ‘You might as well go lick the bottom of a toilet seat bowl, because that’s as much good as it’s going to do you.’” – on criticism

» “My business manager told me I had to have special insurance. He was afraid someone would hang themselves with one of my belts and I’d get sued. I decided it was time to get out of the business.” – on quitting clothing design

» “In fourth grade, I made a girl eat staples because I wanted her satin pants. She didn’t die, though, and now we’re friends.”

» “I’m an actress for hire, and I haven’t been able to indulge a snobbism that I’d like to in choosing films. Money-wise I work from film to film, so there are some things I’m just going to have to forgive myself for doing and see what there is to learn”

» “If nothing else, it makes your teeth fall out and it smells.” – on smoking

» “I look like a lesbian in a correctional facility.” – on what her driver’s license looks like

» “I prefer doing films because they light you a lot better.”

» “I don’t have the face to constantly radiate leading lady energy. There is only one Reese Witherspoon. There is only one Julia Roberts. I don’t fit that mould. And you know what else? I don’t want to.”

» “If you are just playing the foil to the beautiful, glamorous ones, it’s bound to be the opposite, so you get me. As an actress, it would be a waste for me to try and play the glamour part, because truthfully, I am really not at all that.”

» “No one has ever really noticed my breasts much at all in my real life so that was a real departure for me.” – on her role in A Dirty Shame