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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"I love to do very long and complicated scenes."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Love is suffering. One side always loves more."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things."

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

"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."