I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.

I think it's cool people love to hate me.

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.

One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.

Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.