"I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful."
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"Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky."
"It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria."
"I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life."
"Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live."
"Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?"
"It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person."
"I like the feeling of being dominated"
"I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason."
"If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for."
"I like the feeling of being dominated. It actually makes me feel safe as opposed to challenged."
"Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists."
"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
"I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy."
"Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad."
"People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life"
"I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."
"I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world."
"I always play women I would date."
"I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?"