I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cultures and places. I suppose I'm a bit quieter than most of the people I play.

People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing — anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

I find Hollywood really toxic.