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A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

Lesbians and gays ... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

The story is more important to me than the part.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

Men are good but women are magic.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.

I did important films when I was very young.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

I choose my roles carefully.

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.