Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.