I Don't Have Any Romantic Ideas About

Realization That I Couldn't Be A Ballet Dancer Was A Blessing In Disguise Because That Was The First Time I Felt Like I Stepped Into Adulthood. I Realized, Okay, This Is Not Going To Work Out. It Was Frustrating For About A Year Because I Didn't Know What To Do With The Creativity And The Discipline That Dancing Had Instilled In Me From A Very Young Age. But Then I Moved To Paris To Model, And That Was My Cultural Awakening. Now, I Think Dancing Has Been The Biggest Thing In My Life, Much More So Than Modeling, And It Still Helps Me Enormously In My Work.

I Have Three Goddaughters - I'm Not Sure Why They Trust Me, Because I Have No Experience With Children - But I Try.

I Come From A Very Small Rural Village In Northern Germany, And Being An Actor Never Even Seemed Like A Possibility. I Thought You Would Have To Live In A Big City, Or Be Discovered Somewhere, Or Be Born Into An Artistic Family, Which I Certainly Wasn't.

I'm Intrigued More And More By Complex Female Characters Because I'm More In Touch With Myself. I Realize How Screwed Up Or Complex I Am. And I'm Flattered That, Little By Little, More And More Directors Want To Meet Me.

I Do Give Myself A Break In My Personal Life But I Think In Work, If You Don't Push Yourself You Get Bored And Want To Do Something Else.