"I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful."

"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."

"Do you have to have a reason for loving?"

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

"My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films."

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."

"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."

"Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do."

"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."

"I leave before being left. I decide."

"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."

"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

"Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

"I don't think when I make love."

"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."

"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier."

"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

"If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care."

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."

"People are forever finding something wrong with you."

"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."

"I know what sin is."

"I am no mother, and I won't be one."

"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."

"I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big."

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"Film-making was not at all what I had expected."

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."

"I never do anything by chance."

"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."