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But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.
As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.
What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.
But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
I also want my children to find their own way in life and I want to pursue the idea that being in a couple is possible.
Some specific words come more to me in English, and it's very confusing. I remember when I was working in English all the time, and I had to do an interview with Elle magazine, and I couldn't make a sentence. I was caught in the middle, not knowing which way to go.
I think one day I'll get married, but I don't know.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
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.
Sometimes in life things are not easy, and it changes you.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Well, the woman in Blue was more repressed. The light's been taken out of her and she doesn't want to get back to it. She can't allow herself that love or openness because there's too much pain.
I don't believe in coincidence.
I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.
I think the characters I play go through tunnels, like in Three Colours: Blue, for example, where she's lost everything.
I would say I'm humanly engaged.
It's interesting about marriage, because this psychic once told me that I'd get married before I'm 45, so I still have a little time left. I don't know why 45, but that's what she said.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
I'm just living my life and I try to have a normal life.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
I learned a lot last year about the current difficulties in independent film making. Money is promised one minute and gone the next. I was bitterly disappointed about Scheherazade. It was one of the best scripts I have ever read.
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.
I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
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 think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
I think I am pretty much melancholic.
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.
Because I want to tell a story I believe in, and at the moment, the Hollywood scripts I've been reading didn't feel like that.
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
I adore chocolate. But then just lately I started to become allergic to it, so I've had to be careful. Apart from all that, life is wonderful. So it's really a small sacrifice.
But the questions about someone's personal life in interviews are so related to outside concerns that I say no to them.
I didn't want to repeat the same old things you see with sex scenes in so many films.
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
I won't do something just for the sake of working.
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
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