I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

I was made for action movies.

Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.

It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.