I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

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 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.

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.

Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not, - Rumi

A refreshed mind is a creative and productive one

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

When you are done changing, you're done.

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.