Quotes About Author

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

I love this city and the Chicago fans.

I've made it clear I like Chicago.

I love playing in Chicago, and the fans have been great to me.

I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.

I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.

Nando's is my pre-match meal. I have the butterfly chicken, mash and coleslaw.

At times I do feel that there is some issue with child actors because in all my films my performance has been appreciated but the films have not created magic at the box office.

It's like a childish dream come true to be in 'Doctor Who' and to be an alien.

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

My dream has always been to live somewhere in London where the chimneys look as if they could have been used in 'Mary Poppins.'

I think Jose Aldo is tough, I respect him, but I want to test his chin.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

When things are sequenced really hard, it has an effect similar to the one power chords had in the '70s.

I chose Schalke for a couple of reasons. I wanted to go back home, to be close to my little boy, and it's a great club.

It was coincidental that 'Housefull 2' and 'Bol Bachchan' came back-to-back. It's not that I have a special affinity for them and so I chose them; they just came my way.