I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

See! This our fathers did for us.

I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.