It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

I'd Drown For YouI opened my heart to youA complete immersionI offered my soul to youA heavenly diversion

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.