Success is unpredictable and fragile.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.