In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

- Emmanuelle Riva

I love life. I love life to death.

- Emmanuelle Riva

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

- Emmanuelle Riva

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

- Emmanuelle Riva

I've never wanted to be a star, never.

- Emmanuelle Riva

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

- Emmanuelle Riva

Imagination and reality have little in common

- Emmanuelle Riva

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

- Emmanuelle Riva