I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being

Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes to fool us Americans. Ten look-alikes, and he's married to five of them.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!

As Christians, we say what God has said over and over until the thing promised in His Word and desired in our hearts is fully manifested in our lives.

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.