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

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

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.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.