It’s better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

I leave before being left. I decide.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

I can’t do the same thing every night, the same gestures… it’s like putting on dirty panties every day.

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

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 started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can’t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I know what sin is.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

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.

Percentages are why I am rich.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

What does it mean, being a woman?

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.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I don’t think when I make love.

I am no mother, and I won’t be one.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn’t care.

I never do anything by chance.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

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.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

It’s better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.