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.

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.

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.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Oh no, was I to be one of those girls who gets attacked by a jealous girlfriend?

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.