"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."

"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."