It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.