Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

In real life I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.

I just keep active - everything thats challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

I'm a goofy girl. I like to laugh and I like to make other people laugh.

I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. Thats good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.