I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

I used to hate being recognised.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

It's nice that we have all these different films.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

The best place in the world is in the arms of someone who will not only hold you at your best but will pick you up and hug you tights at your weakest moments.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Some things make me emotional in a good way. When my son does well in school, I get real emotional because that's a testament to what I'm feeding him at home on a daily basis as far as knowledge goes. I wasn't so emotional until I had my first son.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.

I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.