I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you cant resist charm.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

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

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.