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I'm very lazy!
I'm a late developer.
I never raise my voice!
I was terrible at school.
My body is a baby machine.
Films are just consumables.
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
I'm very good at forgetting people.
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
My children are lovely. They're perfect.
Successful films are very dangerous things.
Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.
It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.
Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.
If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.
You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.