The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

What makes the desert beautiful, ' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

Our soul is an instrument of music if we choose to play it with love!

Be your OWN celebrity!

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.