Milla Quotes & Sayings

The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players. — Roger Milla

I'm a fantastic dancer! — Roger Milla

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 feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances. — Milla Jovovich

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win. — Roger Milla

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

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible. — Milla Jovovich

Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual. — Milla Jovovich

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

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now. — Roger Milla

Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas. — Milla Jovovich

I really only have a few friends. — 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

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has. — Markus Zusak

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

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet. — 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

She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love. — Markus Zusak

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions. — Roger Milla

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed. — Roger Milla

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

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights. — Roger Milla

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

I'm a big salsa fan! — Roger Milla

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker. — Milla Jovovich

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

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. — 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've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look. — Milla Jovovich

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad. — Roger Milla

I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats. — 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

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. — 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'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

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

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

I always looked at magazines. Ever since I was little I was obsessed with Elle magazine and the models. I would watch the model TV shows, like the specials on Milla Jovovich. — Katherine Bernhardt

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth. — Milla Jovovich

The boy I was craved Kat. The man I am craves Milla. — Gena Showalter

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

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

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

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

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

Do you always eat with so many of your Guard, Majesty?"
"Usually."
"Are security concerns so great?"
"Not at all. I prefer to eat with my Guard."
"Perhaps when you begin a family, that will change."
Kelsea narrowed her eyes as Milla began to ladle soup into her bowl. "My Guard are my family. — Erika Johansen

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go. — Roger Milla

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

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

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

My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships ... " They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself. — Milla Jovovich

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. — Roger Milla

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

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

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

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 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

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

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out. — Roger Milla

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it. — Roger Milla

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

Milla put her hands on his ribs, holding on as he braced his weight on one arm while with his other hand he guided his penis to her and in the same rough motion pushed deep inside.
He froze in place, his breath panting between his parted lips as they stared at each other. She couldn't move; the feel of him inside her was too sharp, almost painful in its intensity. Their gazes met in the mellow lamplight, and she was mesmerized by the tension in his face, the way his steely muscles were locked as if he didn't dare move. It built and built, that clawing need, and yet she remained poised on the razor's edge of something she knew she couldn't control. His chest suddenly heaved on a convulsive breath, and he moved in a long, deep stroke that took him all the way to the hilt. — Linda Howard

Milla was always aware, on the dimmest edge of her consciousness that Diaz constantly watched her.
She also knew that he was a man who never gave up, who never lost sight of his goal. Exactly what his goal was wasn't always clear to her, but she had no doubt he was perfectly clear in his own mind what he wanted.
He wanted her. She knew it, and yet she couldn't imagine how they could ever be together again. The rift between them, to her, was final and absolute. He'd betrayed her in the most wounding way possible, and forgiveness evidently wasn't her strong suit. She had found that grudges weren't heavy at all; she could carry them for a very long time.
Diaz wasn't taking care of her out of the goodness of his heart. He was taking care of her the way a wolf cared for its wounded mate. — Linda Howard

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 just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist. — 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 stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college. — Rick Perry

It said: Dearest Milla, My sould needs yours. Love, Jimmy — Markus Zusak

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'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

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant. — Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute. — Michelle Rodriguez

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

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

On the field, everyone is equal. — Roger Milla

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything. — Milla Jovovich

One week ago, I would have said that I didn't know how this was going to end... but right now, I feel invincible. ~Milla Blaire — Candice Stockstell