Jovovich: "I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot."

Jovovich: "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."

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

Jovovich: "I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career."

Jovovich: "Modelling killed me."

Jovovich: "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."

Jovovich: "I really only have a few friends."

Jovovich: "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."

Jovovich: "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."

Jovovich: "During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet."

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

Jovovich: "Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label."

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