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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"I choose my roles carefully."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"The story is more important to me than the part."

"To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored."

"You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking."