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People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.
Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.
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.
I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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.
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
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.
I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.
The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.
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.
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 think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.
Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.