I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!