Yvette Mimieux

I believe women should be feminine.

There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.

The less I give of myself to the public, the less I can be hurt.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.