We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.

For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.