I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

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

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.