At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
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I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.
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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
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I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.
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I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
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I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.
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I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
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I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
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My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.
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Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
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The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
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To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
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We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
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When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
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