An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

I have busy nights.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I don't have a goal.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I'm not a liar.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.

Insecurity is very common among actors. When I started giving interviews and talking to people that I didn't know, it was a nightmare. I've learned how to deal with interviews and insecurity; I've gotten used to it.

As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it was possible.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'

Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.

There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.

My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.

Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you're doing.

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.

If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.

It's always a weird feeling being on the red carpet, but the more I go, the more I try to connect myself to the here and now. And breathe. That's the way I make the experience a good one. If I think too much - if my head is somewhere else because I'm stressed out - it shows.

I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.