Family is becoming more and more important to me.
I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.
People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.
You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.
I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.
Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!
The reason I stopped modeling was because I wasn't pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I'm just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I'd rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.
I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.
It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.
I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes.
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.
I feel vulnerable sometimes - when I see an emotional scene, for example - and I remember what it took to get to that place, and I fear sometimes that everybody else can see that. You bare a part of you that makes you uncomfortable. I freely give it, I know, but I feel like people know something about me that I wouldn't otherwise give freely to a stranger.
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.
Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever.
The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.
With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.
Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.
I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.
I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.
I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.
