Milla Jovovich Quotes

“I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.”

— Milla Jovovich

“Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.”

— Milla 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.”

— Milla 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.”

— Milla Jovovich

“People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.”

— Milla Jovovich

“At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.”

— Milla 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.”

— Milla Jovovich

“When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.”

— Milla 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.”

— Milla Jovovich

“From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.”

— Milla Jovovich

“My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.”

— Milla 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.”

— Milla Jovovich

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

— Milla Jovovich

“Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.”

— Milla 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.”

— Milla Jovovich

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

— Milla Jovovich

“I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.”

— Milla Jovovich

“Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.”

— Milla Jovovich

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

— Milla Jovovich

“I really only have a few friends.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.”

— Milla Jovovich

“When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.”

— Milla Jovovich

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

— Milla Jovovich

“I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.”

— Milla Jovovich

I think I'm a very pretty girl. I'm never going to pretend to think otherwise. There are even days I feel I'm fabulously hot and sexy. I'm grateful for my looks. My family is doing well because of them. I can make career choices and turn down movies because of them and I have been making money from them for 17 years. My looks are who I am.

— Milla Jovovich

“I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.”

— Milla Jovovich

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

— Milla Jovovich

“I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.”

— Milla Jovovich

“There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy and attention into me, so no matter what happened in my life, I always had this basis of discipline. So I really worked hard for everything I had from a very early age.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.”

— Milla Jovovich

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

— Milla Jovovich

“I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.”

— Milla Jovovich

“It has to start from the inside. I've been juicing like crazy, vegetable juice all day long - instead of drinking coffee. I love green juice, and it's amazing how much more energy I have, my skin looks better. Cleansing and moisturizing every morning and night is also really important, but you can't just depend on your creams. I have to do more for the inside so it shows on the outside.”

— Milla Jovovich

“When I did The Fifth Element [1997], it was like, "Oh my goodness, who is this character?" I loved doing Resident Evil, but Resident Evil is Resident Evil with or without me. It's an entity of its own. It's not like Milla made Resident Evil.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.”

— Milla Jovovich

“You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?”

— Milla Jovovich

“I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.”

— Milla Jovovich

“Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.”

— Milla Jovovich

“You know, women are so much cooler than guys because we can do more martial arts. Martial arts are pretty much made for women because we're quicker and we're smaller than men, and so we're faster. You girls really should take martial arts.”

— Milla Jovovich

“Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.”

— Milla Jovovich

“For me, having kids put so much into perspective. I wasn't so worried about my career and what I did or didn't achieve. Because, suddenly, I was like, "As long as this baby is healthy and safe, everything else is fine."”

— Milla Jovovich

“Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.”

— Milla Jovovich

“When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.”

— Milla Jovovich

“I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.”

— Milla Jovovich

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

— Milla Jovovich

“I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.”

— Milla Jovovich