Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
Passion is very destructive.
It doesn't need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion... It's something you have to go through to learn what passion is about.
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.
For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.
If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
One can be emptied out and be filled up.
One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
I've never felt like a French actress.
Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.
