I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.