At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I am safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can not leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It is like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I am 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I do not feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I do not know that I am necessarily an addict.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I am actually overweight.

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that is what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just do not get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

I can not wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can not wait.

I would love a family. I am at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I am naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Age for me is just a number.

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, You are a sellout, because you are doing something other than what you should be doing. Top Chef is a double-edged sword for me: There is a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I am not in them anymore, all I do is TV.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

From an early age I did not buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.