I guess I'm too outspoken.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.

Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.

I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.