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.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever is supposed to make you rich is well within your reach

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

God could not be everywhere therefore he made mothers.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.