Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

It's weird to have to jump in to being married with somebody, but it was really easy.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.