"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

"You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration."

"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."

"On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me."

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

"That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing."

"Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before."

"I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors."

"Polanski was very precise. I think he still is."

"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."

"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical."

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

"I love to do very long and complicated scenes."

"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."

"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

"I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce."

"I choose my roles carefully."

"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being."

"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."

"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."

"I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away."

"I'm lucky; people write scripts for me."

"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

"To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life."

"Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way."

"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers."

"Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever."

"Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching."

"I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested."

"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."

"I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done."

"It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women."

"Marriage is obsolete and a trap."

"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."

"I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty."

"It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone."

"I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film."

"I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless."

"I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring."

"I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double."

"Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much."

"I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time."

"You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today."

"I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else."

"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."

"I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important."

"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."

"I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding."

"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene."