I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force.

It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.

There’s no other way to look at you. You’re the definition of beauty.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

Math is easy; design is hard.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.