Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.