I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

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.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.