Carole Bouquet
Carole Bouquet
Carole Bouquetis a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 50 films since 1977. She played Bond girl Melina Havelock in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. In 1990, she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress for her role in Too Beautiful for You...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 August 1957
CountryFrance
political want debate
Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.
absolutely anyone close likes peace pure quite
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.
awareness femininity invented learnt means pass people rather staring talk taught
A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
ability claims considered felt good imagined noticed people stared supposed time waiting
You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.
belongs country identify people
People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
real encounters elegance
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.
beautiful husband fall
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.
done scripts france
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.
night reality light
At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.
mother jobs aunt
Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.
beautiful people way
What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
jobs home land
I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
strong pain loss
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.
book
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.