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" Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light. "

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" I am a follower of hyaluronic acid - always in small doses, of course - to fill wrinkles and fine lines. "

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" If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment. "

" Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you? "

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Night

" You have to believe yourself to be the centre of the world, or you believe nothing. You start to treat yourself very badly. "

" For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life. "

" One can be emptied out and be filled up. "

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" One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time. "

" Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. "

" I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself. "

" I do not want to work to correspond to an image. "

" Passion is very destructive. "

" There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. "

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" One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true. "

" Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.' "

" But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. "

" I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS. "

" There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other. "

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" For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith. "

" It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet! "

" I like to go see films that give me courage and hope. "

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Hope

" There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. "

" We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking. "