French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.
We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
I was terrible at school.
