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.

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

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.

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.

At one point in my life you'll have my best but not my whole.

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.