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I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

People always like things that seem exotic.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I feel most comfortable in an old pair of jeans, Converse, and a man's jersey. My best friend cuts my hair with kitchen scissors.

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

I use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, Â£12, on my lips, and my arms if they're sunburned. I'm past caring that sunbathing is dangerous.

Big Ben ... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

I only like boutiques.

Robert Louis Stevenson ... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

At school, I used to hear, 'You're a half-caste.' They'd laugh at my figure and say, 'Are you a boy or a girl?'