"You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing."

"I'm on time even when I try not to be."

"Strong brows give me character."

"What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job."

"I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people."

"Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring."

"I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all."

"I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it."

"I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'"

"Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter."

"It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action."

"Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it."

"You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life.'"

"I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy."

"Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration."

"I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box."

"A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty."

"I think commitment is very important, particularly for me."

"I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris."

"Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.""I d"I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight."on't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight."

"For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active."

"I only dance when I go out."

"I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons."

"I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7."

"I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try."

"I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV."

"I went "to "a Catholic school, and I just rebelled."

"I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd."

"I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me."

"You always have to challenge yourself or else you get soft. Right?"

"The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been."

"Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it."

"It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise."

"I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do."

"I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece."

"I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with."

"But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup."

"I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty."

"In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot."

"I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me."

"Above all, I dislike vulgarity."

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."

"Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make"

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

"We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way"

"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."

"The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit"

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them."

"Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery."

"Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer."