My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting subtle relationship.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured struggle pain.

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

For me living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest open relationship with my God my loved ones my constituency and myself.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

In my relationship I was giving myself away to make the relationship better but in actuality wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

This thing with everyone knowing you it's weird because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Yeah we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

How shall I be able to rule over others that have not full power and command of myself?

Master of the universe but not of myself I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

I don't have a set of tenets but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia I love it and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women which is not a view that many women hold.

Since turning professional at 18 I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect and enjoy watching.