Marilyn Monroe

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

“I believe cinema transforms people into characters and lives into stories.”

Julianne Moore

“I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.”

Jennifer Jones

“Actually every time I stop to think about it, I’m really amazed. I think I’ve had an extraordinary life. And lots of times I can hardly believe it’s me.”

Emily Watson

“It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly. ”

Julie Delpy

“I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.”

Brigitte Bardot

“If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care. ”

Traci Lords

“I hate the phrase `former porn queen.` That part of my life was a long time ago. Think of something else to call me... I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it.”

Barbara Steele

“After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.”

Anna Magnani

“Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.”

Greta Gerwig

Nastassja Kinski

“[on Klaus Kinski] I have never met a man like my father. He is so mad, terrible and vehement at the same time. Because of him, I never knew anything other than passion. When I began to meet other people I saw that it wasn't normal.”