Actress

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

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 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.

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.

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

My body is an instrument for me to use.

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.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

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.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

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.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

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

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

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

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

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.

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