When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal.
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.
I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
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 have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
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.
It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
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.
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 parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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.
Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.
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.
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.
My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
