"I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody."

"I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed."

"I have the courage of my convictions."

"There is a certain dignity to being French."

"The world today doesn't please me."

"I wanted to be myself. Only myself."

"Death was like love, a romantic escape."

"In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases."

"I say what I think and I think what I say."

"Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal."

"I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots."

"No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights."

"My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable."

"Nobody has any security in loving me."

"I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it."

"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."

"Percentages are why I am rich."

"If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care."

"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."

"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."

"I am no mother, and I won't be one."

"I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful."

"I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15."

"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"

"Film-making was not at all what I had expected."

"Do you have to have a reason for loving?"

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words"

"Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum"

"As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren"

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad"

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

"I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one."

"Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do."

"I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big."

"As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me."

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."

"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

"Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them."

"My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."

"We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?"

"I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world."

"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it"

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."

"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."

"Will and intellect are one and the same thing"