I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.
People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
My children are lovely. They're perfect.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
I'm a late developer.
I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
I never raise my voice!
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