Quotes from Milla Jovovich

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

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.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.

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.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

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.

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 love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.

Modelling killed me.