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I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.