Top 36 Sylvia Kristel Quotes
#1. Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?
Jennifer Lawrence
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.
Stephen King
#7. 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
#8. I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Phil Zimmermann
#9. 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
#11. So I want to say that of all the people I have known, you are the only person I regret leaving behind.
Ayn Rand
#12. I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
Sylvia Kristel
#13. The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?
Sylvia Kristel
#14. But sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Napoleon Hill
#15. 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
#16. I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
Sylvia Kristel
#17. When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?
Bobby Heenan
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
#21. 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
#22. People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.
Sylvia Kristel
#23. You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
An Wang
#24. I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.
Sylvia Kristel
#25. 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
#26. When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift
#27. You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.
Sylvia Kristel
#28. 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
#29. What have you done to your hair?" Mom's broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospital
room.
"Holy shit!" Icka patted her head as if searching. "You think the nurse stole it? She looked shady.
Phoebe Kitanidis
#30. 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
#31. I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
Sylvia Kristel
#32. The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.
Muhammad Yunus
#33. I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
Sylvia Kristel
#34. I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house ... so he moved.
Rodney Dangerfield
#35. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.
Percival Everett
#36. His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to anyone who built or constructed something in their respective profession.
Amit Kalantri
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