We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy - they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can't fake that if you're unhealthy.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

And you are going to be to the light of our kingdom. No one is going to hurt you.

The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.