I didn't know about the Bond girl thing. I was approached very quickly, boom, boom, boom, it happened.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

Too bad he was officially the enemy.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.