Sylvia Kristel Quotes
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!
My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.
