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.
After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
Films are just consumables.
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
Movies make you immortal and ageless.
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
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.
You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.
Successful films are very dangerous things.
My body is a baby machine.
I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
