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

I have the courage of my convictions.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that’s how it is.

I leave before being left. I decide.

If people don’t like me, I become very plain.

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

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I’ve always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

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

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

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

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can’t, I’ll stick to animals.

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

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

I never knew hell would be so spick-and-span.

It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn’t matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother’s unexpected need.