Actress Quotes

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.

Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I'm pretty normal looking.

DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

My children are my whole life.

Love has many faces.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I've dated jerks, so why not geeks?

I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.

As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to p

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.

How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.