Anne Parillaud Quotes

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can`t program emotion.

It`s terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It`s a miracle. I don`t understand it. I live it very intensely.

I had never even thought I`d be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It`s the same career.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don`t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don`t like to lie to myself.