Quotations
Collected quotations:

The fifties
My God how will it be when I fall in love!!! Where will I fall in love?
Oh a beautiful time will start from then on.
Many men love you then, namely good-looking- handsome men.
Don't want any others.
I will not get myself cheated on, I will love artfully and kiss without an end!
Oh were I only 19 soon! Quickly! Quickly! Quickly it has to be!
I have to become an actress in any case one day! Yes! I have to!
Yes! Yes! And yes again! I don't mind any thing!
















1953
I had to sign autographs once. But what happened here, crossed all expectations, even the bold ones.
As if I knew what awaited me, I tried out how my name looked like written best at home.
Romy Schneider with a curl or just like that: Romy Schneider.

Until then I had to sing as Rosemarie Albach when I signed a letter, especially all official letters.
But now suddenly: Romy Schneider.

It was worth it that I exercised a few hours of fast writing. Always my name,
so that mom was looking strangely a me when she entered the room and caught me with my stupid exercise.
What you don't do to become famous.

26 November 1954
"A memory is always the most beautiful thing in life, I believe."

"A strange feeling: when I go to the street now, people poke and ask each other: Is that Romy Schneider?"
And then they look at me. That's beautiful. But also very sad. Sometimes I feel torn.
One day I feel proud that it's like that, on another day I wish I could sit in a real pub and eat a sausage
without being watched and controlled by anyone, wondering how I do it and if I eat in a right and civilized way.
If I don't, what do you think why?

1955
"When will I get married? And above all with whom?
It is a strange feeling to know that this person already lives somewhere and works or lazes somewhere and doesn't know about his future luck!
Life is exciting."

1957
After I played the film Sissi, I understood: Your time as an apprentice is over – now the years as an assistant start.
(When a fourth Sissi film was to be shooted, Romy refused. Even a three million DM cash offer could not change her mind.)

1962
"I am not afraid of anything in the the world. But me."

Where do all the years fly to? It all passes by so fast.
"Damned, my private life belongs to me only!"
"There are three people who changed my life decisively. Alain, Viscont and Coco Chanel."

"A convenient opportunity is not to be grasped faintheartedly; you have to grab it by the tuft and develop it with effort…
Talent is nothing else than love for a thing."
1963
I need a place for myself, with a room of my own.
And on the walls of this room I will hang up pictures of people I have loved and I still love.

The most important man in my life is Alain Delon. Whenever I need him, he stretches out his hand…
Even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would help me any time. Only Alain has formed me to a woman.
He left me and hurt me a greal deal but I also grew through it.

18 December 1963
Separation from Alain Delon.
He always berayed me. I was on shootings in America. I came back, the apartment in the Avenue de Messine was empty,
nobody there anymore. There was a bouquet of flowers, beside it a peace of paper: I went to Mexico with Natalie.
All the best, Alain

I don't want to go back half a step for no price- for nothing and nobody!
1966
I would love to be mother once again, that has been my dream for long. It is a life that symbolizes peace for me,
family and security…

(3 December 1966 at 9.06 in the morning Romy's son was born. His name was David-Christopher Haubenstock.)

Isn't it amazing, such a small chap? I am besotted with this chap. I am powerless against him.
He brings up the little one and I try hard not to spoil him too much.
Now my life starts for real. I spoil David terribly. I just can't be strict with him. He always makes me laugh.
Thank God Harry has a tighter hand.

I just let my child be.
When he starts to develop creative imaginations, intelligence, I just let him, when he wants to leave, I let him go.

It may be great words but I will give my child the freedom it needs.

I like to let myself be guided by a man.

At the moment I am a "silent and normal-life" woman.

1968
I'm besotted with my son David. I need him as much as he needs me.
1969
"The things in life" is one of my favorite films, it touches me over and over again without loosing its effect…
because it cannot get old. I'm singing with Michel Piccoli a Chanson of Jean-Loup Dabadie."
To hit the headlines, that's something I never liked – really not.
I'm only interested in artistic films.

17 March 1969
"Delon? Nothing is colder than a dead love."

1970
Claude Sautet and I absolutely trust each other and since "The things in life" we like each other even more.
I shooted with very famous directors but I felt deep confidence in him and "The things in life" which we share with each other.
I would like to keep this friendship as it is. I don't want it to change. He has taught me things in life –
he has taught me something about myself.

"I can't do anything in life but everything on the screen."

"The not-so-easy-thing is the appealing thing."
"One time you're high, the other time you're down and then you will be scrunched like a hot potato."



I know I always give more and too much – bad for me sometimes!

"There were always moments when I came back from the shooting, leached out, all over.
I felt very lonesome then and I didn't know what to do with myself. That's more often the case."

I'm interested in playing someone who is different than me.

"Women don't like to gossip. They just don't know what else to do.

1971
I feel good when I'm shooting.
"Sometimes you just have to follow the tip of your nose. Even though you will hit it somewhere."
I'm only afraid of myself."

1972
(Romy Schneider about Sissi)
"Sissi is sticking at me like semolina pudding" Romy is going to say about her Sissi role later on.
Even though these films brought her star fame, she quarreled with her Sissi image and
wanted to avoid being framed with this one role type.
The film "Sissi" was seen by over 6 million people in Germany and Austria. Due to this great success,
two more films were shooted: "Sissi, the young empress" (1956) and "Years of destiny of an empress" (1957) –
but against Romy's will who felt like being in a corset in this role: "For the audience I was Sissi",
for the producers I was the living personification of the sweet, innocent, imperial highness.
Only I seemed to know: I was no Sissi. I have played Sissi but I didn't resemble this dream figure at all.
I'm greatful. For the success. For the lovely time with the director Ernst Marischka and his wife
who treated me like a second mother. Also for the money which formed the cadre of my fortune and made me independent.
I liked to play Sissi – without a doubt. But still: I didn't want to be identified with this role. I felt labeled.
When a fourth "Sissi" – film was to be shooted, Romy refused. Even an offer of four million DM cash could not change her mind.
This refusal was a coup for Romy Schneider. She gained self confidence and took her life at her own hands.
After a short time she went to Paris with her first big love Alain Delon. There she started a new career as an all-round actress.
Movies which went a new direction followed and made her to an appreciated personality-actress.
Therefore it was like an artistic challenge, 1972 once again, this time under the direction of the great Luchino Visconti,
to play the role of Elisabeth. Now she could interpret Sissi as a self-confident and independent woman.
"Between the past Sissi and my role today there is no similarity at all. Never did I want to wear a historical costume after the "Sissi"-films. And now I did it again. I will play his role, the personality of this woman for the first time for real."


I shall and will never give up asking my few friends I've got to return something of that ? I give to them – I know I always give more.


1974
You have to have many passions in life. It is too short as to experience something like this only once.
I have four teachers: Visconti, Welles, Sautet and Zulawski.

30 October 1974
I defend myself against indiscretion. I want to shield my private life as good as possible.
I provide you with information about my work any time.
The role in Le Train is the best one they offered me in the last few years.
I emigrated because they didn't have anything elso to offer to me but Sissi. They always accused me of treason.
If I didn't go back to Paris then, I would never have this development.

If I get an offer from Germany – be it a film or the stage – and I like it, I will accept any time.

"Sometimes you just have to follow your own will. Even if you get hit."

1975
I would love to be mother again, that has been my dream for so long. That's a life which symbolizes peace, family and security…

18 December 1975
I had my fears, he had his fears. I thought it was going to be something short. And now we exchanged rings today.
All my life I tried to balance my man, kids, profession, money, freedom, security, luck. I failed for the first time.
I try again with Daniel.

New years eve 1975,
shortly after the wedding there was a grave car accident. Between Deauville und Paris,
Biasini crashes in another car with his Benthley, as a co-driver Romy bumps against the front window and suffers from a shock.
The consequence is a miscarriage.

"I wish to have another child despite the miscarriage."

21 July 1977
Birth of Sarah Magdalena Biasini
Sarah is a premature birth, born through a ceasarian in the clinic L'Oasis in Gassin by Saint-Tropez.
She is brought to the children's hospital "Lenval" to Nice and is put in an incubator in a special department for premature babies.

1977
I find us four – Daniel Biasini, Sarah, David and me – we are really a perfect family. I am glad that the child is born healthy. But I am also sure that it is the last one.
Fame has its price. I'm paying with what everyone is paying in order to have peace. You have to consider what you say, what you do. I don't really pay much attention to that. I am a very bad actress in life.

Voilà! Now it is well and long considered. Understood on my own. That's the most important thing.


There is only one life and I want to live it.

The most important man in my life was and is Alain Delon.

End of April 1979
In "A simple story" I feel the woman because she carries a lot of my own feelings inside herself.
Today it is as I've scored Sissi off. According to the people I looked like as if I was carrying my crown with me in my pocket.
Misunderstandings are never excluded. Not even in the best role. You see yourself different light than the producer sees you
and also than the audience sees you. Why can't I tell a writer like Driest in public that I like him! I mean the artist, the writer.
Soon people say I have made a love confession, an immoral offer.

Why don't they leave me alone? I can't speak the way they expect it from me. It's enough that I have a personality
because I'm not a woman who always says yes. When I lift my brows, I certainly look mean.
I'm wondering what the others can do with my freedom. It belongs to me.

1979


We shouldn't loose ourselves for too long.

An actress should only be evaluated according to her roles. I don't let no photographer cross my private door sill.
In "A simple story", I feel the woman because she carries a lot of my own feelings inside herself.

Today it is as I've scored Sissi off. According to the people I looked like as if I was carrying my crown with me in my pocket.
1980
I don't like the word star, I just want to work well.
I want to learn, grow, know what's inside of me.

23 April 1981
At the moment I'm very tired… I hate this Sissi image. What do I give the people but Sissi over and over again.

Sissi? I'm not Sissi any more, I've never been. I'm an unhappy woman of 42 and my name is Romy Schneider.

1981
I have a very deep love connection to my fourteen-year-old son David and I respect him. To me he is an admirable fellow.
He admires me for my profession and he doesn't hesitate to give me advice or help me improve my French
when I'm nervous in a role and make vocabulary mistakes. Probably he also wants to become an actor or producer
but at the moment he is only interested in tennis. He is annoying me with his training camp. And he is right,
I like it when he is enthusiastic like this.

5 July 1981
David's death
David spends Sunday with his grandparents Biasini in the Rue Lorraine in the Parisian suburb Saint Germain-en-Laye.
He comes home in the afternoon. The two meter gate is locked and he climbs on top of the wall to jump over the fence.
He slides and falls in the wrought-iron skewer. They pierce his abdomen. The same evening he dies
in the Center Hospital because of the deadly injuries.

I buried the father -
I buried the son -
I have never left them and they never left me –


1981
In 1977 I have explained "I'm 50 films", as you say: I'm 50 years old".
If this is my highlight? I can't answer to that.
For me the walker of Sans-Souci is more than a movie. Much more!

I will go on living- very good!


Without yearly ascertainment
Only I seemed to know: I was no Sissi. I've played Sissi but I never resembled this dream figure at all in real life.

Women don't like it at all to gossip. They just don't know what else to do with gossip.

It's better to live in a short and nice way than in a long and moderate one.

I've created my own destiny and I don't regret anything.



I have no reason for dramas anymore. Constant dramas and frustrations. Like before, you know.

I always have to try out an extreme, even though it's not good.

I love to go to the limits of the possible, in my profession as well as in my emotional life.

I don't regret anything! You have to have many passions in life, it is too short as to experience somehing like this only once.