I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn't even at his pec yet. I was like, "Oh my God, this man is massive."

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.