I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Every time someone tells me I can't do something the more I want to do it, not to prove them wrong but because I always knew I could do it.

Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.