To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

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Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

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If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

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I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

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