It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor.

It's scientifically proven that chocolate improves your mood. There is something in it that can make you happier and I stand by that theory. Milk chocolate. It's so good!

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

I'm worried about everything at all times.

Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?