You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?