I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

You can't start the change unless dare to be different.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

I wasn’t in love with Daniel. I only met him an hour ago. That was impossible. Wasn’t it?

Ideas do not need weapons.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.

When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then...

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.