I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

I love rainstorms...the thunder, lightning, wind, all of it. So much going on at once, so many emotions...just like me.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.