When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.