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

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

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.

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

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

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

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

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

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

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

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

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

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

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

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

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

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

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

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

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

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

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 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.

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've never felt like a French actress.

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.

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.

Passion is very destructive.

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.'