I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

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.

Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky, touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high.

Hope is a gaze on a higher power to meet our every need.

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.

I always sing Adele in the shower. But everyone should know you never sing an Adele song in public because no one's better than Adele.

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.