Milla Jovovich
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.Collection: Jealousy
I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.Collection: Movies
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.Collection: Teen
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.Collection: Movies
I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.Collection: Movies
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.
Modelling killed me.
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.
When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.
During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.
Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.
I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.
I really only have a few friends.
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.
If you feel like you're helping someone else, it helps you feel more in control of your world.Collection: Helping Someone
Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.Collection: Cutting
I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.Collection: Growing Up
I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.Collection: Character
People say that I'm always late, but that's a mythCollection: People
Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.Collection: Needs
I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.Collection: Character
Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.Collection: Thinking
At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.Collection: Library
You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.Collection: Girl
When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.Collection: Thinking
I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!Collection: Air
What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.Collection: Character
I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am.Collection: Girl
Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.Collection: Crazy
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.Collection: Evening
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quickerCollection: Art
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.Collection: Thinking
I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.Collection: Mother
I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.Collection: Thinking
I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.Collection: Masculine And Feminine
For me, having kids put so much into perspective. I wasn't so worried about my career and what I did or didn't achieve. Because, suddenly, I was like, "As long as this baby is healthy and safe, everything else is fine."Collection: Baby
You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?Collection: Kids