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

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

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

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

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

"I only dance when I go out."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Better never than late."

"From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation."

"If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home."

"To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity."

"I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi."

"As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?"

"All writers are propagandists."