I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

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

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

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.

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.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

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

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.

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.

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

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

Number one" leaders never think about positions, but disposition.

And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'.” - Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.