Tate: "I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent."

Tate: "My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me."

Tate: "Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside."

Tate: "When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on."

Tate: "Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent."

Tate: "If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create."

Tate: "I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty."

Tate: "I guess I'm too outspoken."

Tate: "I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple."

Tate: "My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel."

Tate: "Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me."

Tate: "On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?"

Tate: "I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare."

Tate: "I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly."

Tate: "I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world."

Tate: "I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them."

Tate: "I read that I’m supposed to be Hollywood’s new sex symbol. I think I’m the most unsexy thing that ever was. I’m open for everything of course, but I’m certainly not aware of being sexy."

Tate: "I still have this teddy bear I've had since I was three... and all my boxes, all kinds of boxes. I just won't give them up. It's like if I give them up, I've given in to being a movie star."