"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."

"If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at."

"I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else."

"I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear."

"I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington."

"I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that."

"My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping."

"I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love."

"You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do."

"Life is more important than work."

"With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be."

"Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face."

"I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles."

"What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age."

"The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point."

"I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not."

"I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress."

"I find period pieces really difficult to get my head around. How can we know what it must have been like to be in Nazi Germany in 1944? The reality weighs on me because I feel like you want to try and honor what happened, but how can you truly know? I have never lived in a war or lost anyone."

"I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes."

"Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever."

"Because I worked in fashion, I know that I like fashion. Haute couture is a form of art that I can appreciate. I'm definitely not someone who wakes up every day and thinks about what I'm going to wear, but on the red carpet, it's reflective of the mood I'm in, or the movie I'm going to represent."