One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.

One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.