It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box.
When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.
I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.
I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.
Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.
Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
I am not sleepy at all!
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
I was born in Tehran at a time when women's rights were deteriorating at a rampant rate. My parents didn't want to raise their daughter in a social, political, and religious climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls, so they emigrated to London. But the struggle of the Iranian people was permanently etched in my social consciousness from a young age.
The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.