I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.