What makes a person sexy is when he’s not trying to be sexy.
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it’s one of my vices.
I am not a woman staying at home.
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
I would say I’m humanly engaged.
I really don’t think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn’t want it to.
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
I’m very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.
I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
As an actress we don’t beat one another. It’s whoever’s right for the part.
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.
If you told me tomorrow that I couldn’t act anymore, it wouldn’t bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.
The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I’ve never thought of myself as this face.
Maybe it’s because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I’m frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don’t need reassurance.
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
I’m not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.
Changing someone’s life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another’s life. Do you understand?
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It’s passing through you more than you’re creating it. You’re not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.