Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.
As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
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.
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.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
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.
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.
But the questions about someone's personal life in interviews are so related to outside concerns that I say no to them.
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.
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.
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.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
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.
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.
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 didn't want to repeat the same old things you see with sex scenes in so many films.
I don't believe in coincidence.
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.
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.
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.
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.
I think I am pretty much melancholic.
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
I think one day I'll get married, but I don't know.
I think the characters I play go through tunnels, like in Three Colours: Blue, for example, where she's lost everything.
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 was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
I won't do something just for the sake of working.
I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
I would say I'm humanly engaged.
I'm just living my life and I try to have a normal life.
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
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.
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.
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.
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
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.
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.
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.
Sometimes in life things are not easy, and it changes you.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
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.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.
You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy.
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