I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Sometimes you have to go to the bottom in order to start at the Top.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

I was born with the gift.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.