If you feel like you're helping someone else, it helps you feel more in control of your world.
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth
Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.
I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.
I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.
Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.
Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.
I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.
Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am.
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.
What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.
I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.
It has to start from the inside. I've been juicing like crazy, vegetable juice all day long - instead of drinking coffee. I love green juice, and it's amazing how much more energy I have, my skin looks better. Cleansing and moisturizing every morning and night is also really important, but you can't just depend on your creams. I have to do more for the inside so it shows on the outside.
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker
My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships . . ." They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.