It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.