Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.
Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.
We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.
You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.
I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
