I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?