 I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding. |
| I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important. |
| I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working. |
| People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life. |
| In America you need a bodyguard to go out. |
| People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable. |
| That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. |
| People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden. |
| Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that. |
| I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless. |
| I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. |
| Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way. |
| I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved. |
| Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. |
| 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. |
| All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. |
| This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. |
