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It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
I choose my roles carefully.
Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.
I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.
That’s what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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.
I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
I love to do very long and complicated scenes.
I’m not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I’m an actress when I’m not working.
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.
Actors have to be there and do the work, and that’s enough.
Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
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.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.
You suffer as an actor. It’s difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
I was never a dangerous woman. I’m not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I’ve always liked the way they look. Even rats. I’m not scared of them.
I wouldn’t say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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.
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
People who know me know I’m strong, but I’m vulnerable.
Lesbians and gays… they still have to fight, even inside. It’s not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I’m afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
I’m lucky; people write scripts for me.
I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.