I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Is there any greater act then praying for all people from every nation?

There are people who just haven't done as well in a globalized economy.

To give is to receive.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

John Paul II called us Jews the older brothers of Christians. He represented humanity, dialogue and reconciliation, and he laid the foundation for religions to work together.

We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.