I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.