Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

I was made for action movies.

Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.