I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

I was made for action movies.

Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.