“American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.”

“Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.”

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

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

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

“I believe in angels, so it's simple.”

“I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.”

“I do not want to work to correspond to an image.”

“I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.”

“I find the heated political debate over the burkini both ridiculous and dangerous.”

“I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.”

“I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.”

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

“I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?”

“I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore.”

“I think that we all carry the divine within us.”

“I think we have to get back the value of behavior that is consistent with being taught: that's to say, respecting teachers, listening, and not always expecting your opinion to take precedence.”

“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.”

“If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.”

“If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.”

“I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.”

“I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.”

“I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.”

“In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.”

“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.”

“It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.”

“I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.”

“I've never felt like a French actress.”

“I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.”

“Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.”

“My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.”

“Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.”

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

“One can be emptied out and be filled up.”

“One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.”

“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.”

“Passion is very destructive.”

“Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.”

“People tell me I'm doing all these intense women and that I should lighten up. Then I do a comedy that I'm not happy with, and I think, 'Let's go back to heavy, heart-breaking drama; it's so much more fun.'”

“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.”

“The newspapers were saying, 'You have AIDS.' They actually said I was dead. I just threw myself into my work when the whispering campaign turned really ugly.”

“The soul preserves beauty.”

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

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

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

“To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.”

“To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.”

“Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.”

“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.”

“You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.”

“You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.”