I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

Always be ready to help

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.