Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it.