When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.

The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.