37 Quotes by Sylvia Kristel

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!