Anne Parillaud Quotes

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.

I consider myself a little weak.

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.

I am somebody who feels that we're all fabulous, every human being, and I think when we do things that aren't so fabulous, we are disconnected from who we really are.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

I think I've always acted confident, even at times I haven't been confident.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.