When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Darkness humbles and demolishes the people

Have confidence in God's character, love, and power.

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.