"I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things."

“It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

“I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.”

“In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.”

Source : "'A Good Day to Die Hard's' Yuliya Snigir on Russian Stereotypes and 'Making It' in Hollywood (Q&A)". Interview with Irina Danilova, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2013.

“The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.”

“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”

“I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.”

Source : Pierre Bayle, John Kilcullen, Chandran Kukathas (2005). “A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: "Compel them to come in, that My house may be full"”, Liberty Fund Inc.

“I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.”

“I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.”