I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.