Penélope Cruz

“The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.”

Gael García Bernal

“Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.”

Patti Smith

“When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.”

Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.”

Jocelyn Pook

Moritz Bleibtreu

Oren Lavie

Ennio Morricone

“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”

Cat Stevens

“To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.”

Martin Todsharow

Rachel Weisz

“I find Hollywood really toxic.”

Zemfira

Sigur Rós

Joy Division