I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
I don't give a damn about Hollywood.
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.
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'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
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.
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
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.
My body is an instrument for me to use.
If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.
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