I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

The devil will suggest some activities to you to make you leave your primary goal

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

I am very honored and excited to be part of UFC 100, it's going to be the hardest challenge of my career so far and it's going to be pretty tough, I can't wait.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.