“I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don’t like television cameras, but an interview is OK.”

I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires.

I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.

Figure out what you’re passionate about. If you’re not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.

Figure out what you’re passionate about. If you’re not passionate about something, go find it. Because we do not need more unengaged boring people to inhabit this planet.

It is funny, I don’t feel old enough to give advice… But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that’s the only way you’re going to improve.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything

Film has always been hard for me, I’m basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw,

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.