I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear.