Zitat des Tages über Audrey Hepburn:
My mother always said to carry yourself with dignity and pride, and I just think Audrey Hepburn totally epitomizes that, you know? From such a young age, she was dancing ballet. There was a lot going on in her life... that was during the time of the Nazis.
Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.
I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.
England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
I don't sleep with happily married men.
I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.
I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
It's incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.
You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.
My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.
It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.
It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.
I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.
I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.
As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.
I'm always looking for inspiration.
We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!
I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?
If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.