Marilyn Monroe had thick, dark eyebrows even though her hair was platinum and it looked gorgeous. It worked because she had brown eyes - dark eyes can handle a dark brow even if the hair is blond.

I never promised you a rose garden.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Women love lash tinting because it makes the eyes really pop in red-carpet photos.

I play tennis because I like it.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the...

Good eyebrows give your face definition.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved...

I'm not tall.

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn't allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn't understand why!