Quotes from Sylvia Hoeks

As a female actress, I didn't feel the need to be sexy or beautiful.

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.

I love pretending more than reality.

I love long dinners with friends.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.

I'm very comfortable with men - they're freer and a lot of fun!

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

You have to work your way up - that's how I was brought up and what I believe in: working hard.

I'm a hippie at heart - I always want everyone to be happy.

Think of Capt. Hook, and then put an 's' after it. Capt. Hooks. That's me.

I worked out six hours a day, six days a week, to get 16 pounds of extra muscle.

Especially for young girls growing up, it would be lovely to see strong women who don't necessarily need to be sexy or find that interesting. Or have to be the girlfriend or the mother. They can play complex characters that you want to follow and make you believe that you can be strong as well.

I'm not really into trends.

I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.

It sometimes happens that you come out of a scene, and you don't even know what happened. It's like you're in the zone.

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.

When I go to a movie, I want to see stuff that I don't see in my normal life, and I want to see it all.

I was shooting a German movie, 'Whatever Happens,' at the time, and I got the call from my agent asking me to self-tape for 'Blade Runner.' That was a no-brainer. I loved the original, and Rutger Hauer was a national hero, and he did such a good job in it.

I love Tilda Swinton and the way she dresses. She always looks like a piece of art.

I didn't 'leave' Dutch cinema.