“My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.”

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us

Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black – a lot more practical and much more fun.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I didn’t have familiarity with children. I’m learning day after day, with her [daughter]. And what impresses me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.

If you have a script that’s not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who’s not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It’s so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick.

We all need illusions. That’s why we love movies.

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don’t get used to someone or take them for granted.

After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.

Do not hate the people who are jealous because they recognize that you are the best.

When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

I’m not a movie star. I’m just an actress.

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.

Don’t give up! It’s not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn’t balance your budget, you went out of business.

April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn’t know much about living.

A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.