To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know?
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
I need, absolutely, to be alone.
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
I have no doubt who I am.
I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Life doesn't end at 30.
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
My aim in life is not to judge.
I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
Living is risking.
One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
People's opinions don't interfere with me.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.
