There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.