I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.

My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.