My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

What does it mean, being a woman?

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.