I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, "oh!", and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.