Sylvia Hoeks

“When I go to a movie, I want to see stuff that I don't see in my normal life, and I want to see it all.”

“If a man's able to laugh about himself, that's good. You can be in love with a man or share his bed, but if there's no humor, there's nothing.”

“It sometimes happens that you come out of a scene, and you don't even know what happened. It's like you're in the zone.”

“Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.”

“Think of Capt. Hook, and then put an 's' after it. Capt. Hooks. That's me.”

“I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.”

“Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.”

“No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.”

“Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.”

“It's interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me - without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess - what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it's like the character takes over.”

“I'm not really into trends.”

“I didn't 'leave' Dutch cinema.”

“I love long dinners with friends.”

“You have to work your way up - that's how I was brought up and what I believe in: working hard.”

“I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.”

“I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.”

“I'm a hippie at heart - I always want everyone to be happy.”

“I love playing villains or bad guys or bad girls.”

“I'm not an actor that works in front of a mirror, who tries to repeat her actions or whatever.”

“I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.”