In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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.
I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.
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 grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.
In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L. A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.
My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.