Carole Bouquet

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought…

— Carole Bouquet

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to…

— Carole Bouquet

Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere…

— Carole Bouquet

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would…

— Carole Bouquet

The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is…

— Carole Bouquet

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a…

— Carole Bouquet

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time,…

— Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

— Carole Bouquet

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever...…

— Carole Bouquet

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have…

— Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

— Carole Bouquet

A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be…

— Carole Bouquet

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

— Carole Bouquet

With the turmoil, with the vicissitudes, with the pain we inflict on each other, love is possible. Sometimes the roads cross and…

— Carole Bouquet

Wine is connected to abundance.

— Carole Bouquet

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered…

— Carole Bouquet

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so…

— Carole Bouquet

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to…

— Carole Bouquet

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the…

— Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

— Carole Bouquet

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

— Carole Bouquet

It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it…

— Carole Bouquet

It's like a kitchen, acting. Put a chef in a kitchen and they will have different recipes. Whatever your recipe, what works…

— Carole Bouquet

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness.…

— Carole Bouquet

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