Top 31 Kristel Quotes
#1. Nobody cared about Oma Kristel, about the way she had tried to keep herself attractive long after Youth had packed its bags and moved out of the aging tenement, about the way she always had some little gift for me, a sample bottle of unsuitable scent or a brooch made of sparkly paste.
Helen Grant
#2. 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.
Sylvia Kristel
#3. This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.
William Strunk Jr.
#4. I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
Sylvia Kristel
#5. I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
Sylvia Kristel
#6. 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.
Sylvia Kristel
#7. Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.
Sylvia Kristel
#9. You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.
Sylvia Kristel
#10. 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!
Sylvia Kristel
#11. I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.
Sylvia Kristel
#12. Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.
Jon Wynne-Tyson
#13. People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.
Sylvia Kristel
#14. 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.
Sylvia Kristel
#15. The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
#16. I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.
Chester Bennington
#17. 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.
Sylvia Kristel
#18. I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
Sylvia Kristel
#19. The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.
Sylvia Kristel
#20. The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?
Sylvia Kristel
#21. I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
Sylvia Kristel
#23. I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
Sylvia Kristel
#24. As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
Sylvia Kristel
#25. 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.
Sylvia Kristel
#26. Her company, Harry felt as she went off into the damp dark, was like that of the sea. Gentle, powerful. A commanding undertone telling him he could not do without it.
Kristel Thornell
#27. Something in me refused to be defeated by heartbreak. Oliver wasn't coming back but I wasn't going to abandon me either.
Kristel Villar
#28. When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate.
Sylvia Kristel
#29. How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?
Abbi Glines
#30. 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!
Sylvia Kristel
#31. 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.
Sylvia Kristel
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