If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

I don't believe in coincidence.

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.