French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

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

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.