French Actress Quotes

Sarah Bernhardt

Brigitte Bardot

Catherine Deneuve

Simone Signoret

Isabelle Adjani

Juliette Binoche

Anouk Aimée

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

Sarah Bernhardt

When asked if she has any hope for animals in the future:

No. The industrialization of the rearing and death of animals takes away all my hope of it ever improving.

Brigitte Bardot

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

Juliette Drouet

I think the characters I play go through tunnels, like in Three Colours : Blue, for example, where she's lost everything... In The English Patient, she loses her best friend; this patient is dying in front of her – there's no hope, so she's going to start from the bottom. In films we see extremes, because it's where you have turning points. Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films — as if all my characters were sisters – but I'm not so sure now.

Juliette Binoche

The body of an actor is like a well in which experiences are stored, then tapped when needed.

Simone Signoret

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.

Claudette Colbert

I like films that rest in the memory so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force. For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.

Isabelle Adjani

Sexuality is such a part of life, but sexuality in movies – I have a hard time finding it.

Catherine Deneuve