All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

I was born with music inside me

Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.