Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, "oh!", and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.