I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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.
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.
In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.
When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
I don't give a damn about Hollywood.
I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
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.
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.
My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
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 have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
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.
It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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.
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.
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.
My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
My body is an instrument for me to use.
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.
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