The newspapers were saying, 'You have AIDS.' They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly.
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore.
I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.
I think we have to get back the value of behavior that is consistent with being taught: that's to say, respecting teachers, listening, and not always expecting your opinion to take precedence.
I am a follower of hyaluronic acid - always in small doses, of course - to fill wrinkles and fine lines.
If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.
I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?
It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.
People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.'
The soul preserves beauty.
I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.
Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.
American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.
I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.
Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'
If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment.
I loved my freedom as an adolescent, and I'd love to be an adolescent again.
I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.
