Quotes

I have always adored beautiful young men. Just because I grow older, my taste doesn't change. So if I can still have them, why not?

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.

[when asked what was the best day of her life] It was a night...

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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

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

I don't think when I make love.

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

[on Sarah Palin] By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe.

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

I am really a cat transformed into a woman . . . I purr. I scratch. And sometimes I bite.

I gave my youth and beauty to men. Now I'm giving my wisdom and my experience, the better part of me, to animals.

Apart from my husband, I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants.

[why she retired from show business at age 39] I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer. Suddenly, I discover that I have nothing to complain.

I have a slight despising for humanity in general.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. Politics disgusts me.

There are many new languages in the new Europe. Mediocrity is taking over from beauty and splendor. There are many people who are filthy, badly dressed and badly shaven.

[on Muslims in France] I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts.

I am against violence. I'm a hippie girl.

I am against the Islamisation of France! This obligatory allegiance, this forced submission disgusts me.... Our ancestors, the elderly, our grandfathers, our fathers have for centuries given their lives to push out successive invaders.

I felt like a stranger in my parents' house. I was shy and had dreadful complexes as a child. I always thought I was ugly, and at first the critics agreed with me. They said I looked like a common maid; they said I was 'ordinary,' which is much worse than vulgar.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

[on the #MeToo movement, January 2018] In the vast majority of cases they are being hypocritical, ridiculous, uninteresting. There are many actresses who flirt with producers in order to get a role. Then, in order to be talked about, they will say they have been harassed. In reality, rather than benefiting them, it harms them.

Me, I was never the victim of sexual harassment and I found it charming when I was told that I was beautiful or I had a nice little backside. This kind of compliment is nice.

I'm not a good grandmother. They live in Norway with their father, they don't speak French and we don't have the opportunity to see one another. Why dress it up any other way? You know, I've always said what I think and thought what I said. I never believed in blood ties.

Bernard accepts three or four animals sleeping on our big bed. If he refused he would not be my companion.

[on Henri-Georges Clouzot] A negative being, forever at odds with himself and the world around him.