When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster. '
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.
You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.