As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

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

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

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.

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.