"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 get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored."

"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."

"Love is suffering. One side always loves more."

"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that."

"I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not."

"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 love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more."

"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 admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved."

"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."

"You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking."

"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women."

"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."

"The story is more important to me than the part."

"I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian."

"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."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often."

"Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films."

"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."

"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

"You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration."

"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."

"On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me."

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

"That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing."

"Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before."

"I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors."

"Polanski was very precise. I think he still is."

"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."

"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical."

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

"I love to do very long and complicated scenes."

"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."

"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

"I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce."

"I choose my roles carefully."

"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being."

"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."

"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."

"I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away."

"I'm lucky; people write scripts for me."

"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

"To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life."

"Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way."

"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers."

"Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever."

"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."