Quotes by Sylvia Kristel

About Sylvia Kristel:

Sylvia Maria Kristel was a Dutch actress who performed in over 50 films, including as the lead character in four of the seven Emmanuelle films.
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You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

Sylvia Kristel

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

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

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...

Sylvia Kristel

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

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

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Sylvia Kristel

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

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

Sylvia Kristel

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

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

Sylvia Kristel

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

Sylvia Kristel

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

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

Sylvia Kristel

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

Sylvia Kristel

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

Sylvia Kristel

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Sylvia Kristel

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

Sylvia Kristel

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

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

Sylvia Kristel

Author Bio

  • NameSylvia Kristel
  • DescriptionActress, model
  • BornSeptember 28, 1952
  • DiedOctober 17, 2012
  • CountryNetherlands
  • ProfessionSinger; Film Actor; Film Director; Actor; Model; Painter; Pornographic Actor; Autobiographer