My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.