My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

When you’re in love, you don’t need words. A look, a touch, a sigh – you’ve said it all.

Fall in love with the habit of learning from the great successful people who came before you, so that you don't spend the rest of your life as a stranger to success.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.