- I saw the words 'Dada', 'depressed' and 'Berlin', and that was enough for me to apply for the role [Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven]
- Once an actress or a model people don't believe you can do differential equations.
- My strongest role model for these decision [turning down commercial scripts] has always been Tilda Swinton. Before her rise to major success, I was watching her in 1999 as a kid, in "The War Zone" and observed her choices in the style of scripts she explored, refusing to go Hollywood or commercial. It has guided me in not being afraid to turn major level things down
- You pick your director, and script, as well as them picking you at the auditions, and it's just as important.
- Scorsese's "Raging bull" is the reason I became obsessed with film, and then dreamt to be an actress. That, and an overwhelming desire to challenge one's self, to be fearless - in expression, in art.
- I have an intuitive style in fashion and attitude. It is the flamboyance to the solitary mathematician - the character who can sit alone in frayed jumpers and intuitively do algebra.
- When I needed a day job, I took one broking high performance cars, yachts and jets in the south of France. Once you've done that you, you can deal with Hollywood
- As a passionate actor, you give all your energy to the filming, but then its over, there's nothing, no artistic input. The whole film is really made again in editing, it is completely at someone else's discretion. An actor on stage, it's the closest you'll have to the final say and you can have the emotion to flow unbroken, as it is in real life.
- I used to have crippling nerves. Now, I am most at ease on a film set than anywhere else, it's where I spend most of my time - performing for others. I still get pre-nerves but the difference is I know it's my essential energy source for the scene and how to send it there.
- I love playing dark roles.
- It's a dream to be cast to play Alice in Strindberg Dance of death.
- Pasolini and Bergman I consider the most influential film makers of all time
- Its probably wrong to have a favorite anything, but I do, my favorite role to play - Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. I've played Lady Macbeth on stage and Miss Julie.
- I'd rather read Strindberg than Shakespeare
- The real power for female actors lies in the producing, negotiating and business deals
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