Actress Quotes

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.