Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn’t care.
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
I never do anything by chance.
Percentages are why I am rich.
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
It’s better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
What does it mean, being a woman?
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
I know what sin is.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
I leave before being left. I decide.
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
I am no mother, and I won’t be one.
I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can’t find a way of avoiding it.
I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don’t enjoy it even now.
I can’t do the same thing every night, the same gestures… it’s like putting on dirty panties every day.
I don’t think when I make love.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can’t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.