My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.