The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

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.

Sacred joy exists in any suffering.

If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

I need to shop because generally, I really do style myself. It's easier to wear clothes that are true to who you are. But if it's a headache, I'll ask for help.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent.