I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

I had seen a different side of her, the one where she didn't feel threatened by me, and I liked that side. That side was vulnerable and happy and kind.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

I love. I have loved. I will love.

[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway.

Knight saved it with his back arm

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.