I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.

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

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

He comes with those in his employ, to watch, gathering evidence and confession. His success speaks of a countryside rife with evil, an intemperate plague of witches . . .

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.