It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.