Living is risking.

I have no doubt who I am.

I've never worried about age.

My aim in life is not to judge.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

You should not separate your life from what you do.

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

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