For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

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.

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.

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.

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

I dont want to be President I dont

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.