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

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.

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.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

With all eagerness, pursues your sacred dreams.

Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.

Christmas is not only where you find it

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was