It's boring to be like everybody.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Appreciation, affection, focus and intention fill up the space of self-reflection, and one loses oneself in the engagement. And what a relief it is when you get there.

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.