Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: “I did not deserve God’s forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.

Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.

Not everything that is related to yoga is equally beneficial.

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.