"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."

“It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.”

Source : "Saoirse Ronan: 200 years young". Interview With Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2013.

“Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.”

“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

“Thats one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.”

“The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.”

Source : 'But We Were Born Free' (1954) ch. 1

“As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod”