117 Quotes by Milla Jovovich

Its 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.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

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.

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

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.