My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

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

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.

I… have an unnatural fondness for him, Duchess. One might even say that I love him. As a man should love a woman, really.” “Well, I would imagine the mechanics of that would be different.

She’d left him.Without a word. Without a thought. She’d left him and now he hadfeelings.For that alone, he’d never forgive her.

The greatest among you are those with the greatest love.The richest among you are those with the most joy.

I don't have to be the hero or nothing. I just have to be part of the team.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it