Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool in order to give in films.

For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.