27 Quotes by Sibel Kekilli

I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.

The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy.

I have to make sure I don't eat too much chocolate. You can't imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.