"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life."

"If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal."

"I don't think I was a good comedian."

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative."

"I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself."

"I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be."

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals"

"I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer."

"When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it."

"I am typically French."

"I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland."

"I regret nothing."

"I am really not interested in the cinema."

"China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals."

"We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets."

"I stopped making films to look after animals."

"I'm not an extremist, you know."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

"Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me."

"I am against the Islamisation of France."

"Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere."

"Politics disgusts me."

"My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it."

"My private life became public."

"People have already dirtied my name too much."

"When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else."

"I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do."

"I'm too impatient."

"I have a gruff character."

"A film about my life? But I am not dead."

"I never had trouble saying what I have to say."

"I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way."

"I adore my houses - they're my refuge - but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it's impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me."

"My favourite animals are dogs."

"I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be."

"I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause."

"It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away."

"Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!"

"All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals."

"I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one."

"Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it."

"We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories."

"Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering."

"I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them."

"My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others."

"I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is."

"You can be barefoot and have worries."