I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

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

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

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

Paris is just special. I don't say that there are no other cities in America or Italy. But everybody wants to show in Paris.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

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

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

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.

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

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

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

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

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

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

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

Men are good but women are magic.

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

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

The story is more important to me than the part.

There are times when it depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.

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

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 did important films when I was very young.

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

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

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

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

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

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.

I'm so popular it's scary sometimes. I suppose I'm just everybody's type.

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

This book was company for me-I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

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.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

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

In America, you need a bodyguard to go out.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people.