When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
My children are lovely. They're perfect.
I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
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'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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 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.
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
I'm a late developer.
I never raise my voice!
I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
