Simone Signoret Quotes

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they’re bad – I have to smile.

– Simone Signoret

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

– Simone Signoret

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

– Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

– Simone Signoret

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

– Simone Signoret

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

– Simone Signoret

When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

– Simone Signoret

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

– Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they’re going to do the part… And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

– Simone Signoret

I got old the way that women who aren’t actresses grow old.

– Simone Signoret

I suspect there isn’t an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family’s questions after his first day’s activity in his future profession.

– Simone Signoret

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that’s often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one’s youth.

– Simone Signoret