I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!