I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.