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

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

I have no doubt who I am.

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

Life doesn't end at 30.

I've never worried about age.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

Living is risking.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

My life is very exciting now.

My life is very exciting now.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

You should not separate your life from what you do.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.people see in you.

My aim in life is not to judge.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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.

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

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

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

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.