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.

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 have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

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.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.