Top 23 Quotes by Sylvia Kristel

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

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

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!

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.