I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

The favorite method of vice is to diss all responsibility be work or social, go off by myself, and enjoy a good steak and a great glass of wine. Oh yeah, and my kids are there too.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.