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" I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers. "

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" My body is an instrument for me to use. "

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" Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around. "

" Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart. "

" There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again. "

" It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles. "

" After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. "

" I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love. "

" My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. "

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" You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic. "

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" I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life. "

" Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening. "

" I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do. "

" There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons. "

" I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school. "

" The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. "

" I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done. "

" If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous. "

" I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non. "

" I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. "

" Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them. "

" I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. "

" I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it. "

" When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful. "

" I don't give a damn about Hollywood. "

" I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student. "

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" I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think. "

" In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags. "

" I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American. "

" The press follow me. I sue them. That's the deal. "