This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can’t go too close to them. To me it’s pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that’s quite a relief. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I’ve done starts with a happy marriage, it’s all beautiful, wealthy, whatever… and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
I’ve been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn’t say this to Dustin Hoffman. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
It’s like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works for you won’t work for another. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
I’m attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I’d inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
When you’re young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you’re very strong. In fact through time, it’s just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
The problem with movies is that you see from the first day – you’re on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can’t get off the train, and the whole experience is painful. Carole Bouquet Read Quote
