collected quotes:
(If you know any interresting Romy quotes that are missing from our collection please mail us at: webmaster@romy.de)

50's
"My god, what will it be like when i fall in love?"


"Where will i fall in love?
Oh! It will be the beginning of a great time!!
When many jaunty, handsome men adore you!
I don't want any others - only jaunty! handsome!"

1953
"I have attended autograph signing session before, but this exceeds all expectations!
I was practicing my singnature beforehand at home, to see which way it would look the best, as if i had sensed what was ahead.
Romy Schneider, with a curl or just: Romy Schneider.
Until now i had to sign letters and especially official documents with Rosemarie Albach. And all of a sudden its Romy Schneider.
So my spped-writing practice at home paid off.
I was writing only my name, over and over again, and when my mother suddenly entered the room she looked at me in a weird way.
The things you do to be famous."


November 26th, 1954
"I think that the memory is often the best part in life."


1957
"After i finished shooting "Sissi" one thing was very clear to me:
You are no longer a trainee - now you are a journeyman. "


(Romy declined taking part in a proposed fourth "Sissi"-Movie, even a one million DM offer couldn't change her mind)


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


"Damn it, my privatelife does not concern anyone but me."


"There are only three people that had a crucial impact on my life: Alain, Viscont and Coco Chanel."


"If you get a great opportunity you have to grab it and don't let go, then extend it with alot of effort...talent is nothing more then love for the cause.“


1963
"I need a place for myself, in a room that is mine.


And the walls of this room will be covered with pictures of all the people that i love and have loved.


The most impartant man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when i need a shoulder to cry on....even today Alain is the only man i can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me alot when he left me i also matured because of it."


December 18th, 1963
(Seperation from Alain Delon)
"He deceived me all the time. I was in the USA for the shooting of a movie. When i returned, the apartment in the Avenue de Messine was empty, abandoned. Then i saw a bunch of roses next to a note that said: Natalie and I went to Mexicao, good luck, Alain"."


1966
"I have dreamed of having another child and being a mother again for a while now.
It represents peace, family and security to me..."


(Romys son is born on December 3rd 1966. He is named David-Christopher Haubenstock.)


"Isn't is great, such a little fella? I am head over heels in love with him. I am powerless against him.
Thats why I have an agreement with Harry.
He takes care of the parenting and i will try not to spoil him too much."


"My life is only beginning now. It is appalling how much I spoil David.
I can't be strict with him. He constantly makes me laugh.
Thank god that Harry has a frim hand."


"I will let my child do whatever he wants.
If he starts to develop creative fantasy, intelligence, i will let him, if he wants to leave, i will let him.
It may sound far fetched, but i will try to give him the freedom he needs."


"I like to let my husband guide me."


1968
"I love my son David more then anything. I need him as much as he needs me."


1969
"„The Things of Life“ is one of my favorite movies, it touches me every time, without losing any of its impact...because it's timeless.. Me and Michel Piccoli are singing a Chanson from Jean-Loup Dabadie here."


"I never liked to make headlines with my pricate life - honestly"


"I am only interrested in artistic movies."


March 17th, 1969
"Delon? Nothing is colder then a dead love."


1970
"There is a kind of absolute trust between me and Claude Sautet and our frandship has grown a lot since „The Things of Life“. I have made movies with very famous directors but i haven't trusted anyone as much as him and "The Things of Life" that we share. I want our friendship to remain the same, that it doesn't change and that I won't change.
He tought me the Things of Life - he tought me something about myself."


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


"The hardest things are the most appealing."


"Sometimes you are at the top, sometimes you are at the bottom and get dropped like a hot potato."


"There have always been moment when i returned home from shooting totally exhausted, done with the world.
In those moments i feel alone and don't know what to do with myself.
These moments are occuring more frequently now."


"I am interrested in portraying characters that are nothing like me."


1971
"I am the most comfortable when i am shooting a movie."


"Sometimes you have to follow your nose.
Even if that means it gets broken."


"I am only afraid of myseIf."


1972
(Romy Schneider about Sissi)

„Sissi is sticking to me like glue."

„For the audience I was "Sissi", for the producers I was the representation of the sweet, innocent royal empress. It seemed like only i knew: I am no Sissi. I played Sissi but I am nothing like this character."

„I am thankful. For the success. For the wonderful time with director Ernst Marischka and his wife, who treated me was like a second mother to me. Also for the money, which was the cornerstone for my wealth and made me independent. I loved playing Sissi - no doubt about it. But: I did not want to be identified with the part. I felt labeled."

(About playing the part of Elisabeth)

„Sissi and this part have nothing in common. I thought i would never again wear a historic costume after the Sissi-Movies. But now i am wearing one anyway.


1974
"You need to have different passions in life.
It is too short to only experience things once."


I have four teachers: Visconti, Welles, Sautet and Zulawski.


October 30th, 1974
"I am fighting indiscretion. I am trying to shield my private life as best as possible. Ask me anything about my work.
The part in "The Train" is the best offer i had in years.
I left the country because the only offers I had were Sissi related. And for that people accuse me of treason.
I had never undergone this progress if i hadn't moved to France.
If i get an interresting offer from Germany - no matter if on stage or screen - i will gladly return."



December 18th, 1975
"I had my fears, he had his fears. I thought this would be something short-term.
And today we exchanged rings.
I have tried to simultaneously manage husband, child, work, money, freedom, security and happyness my whole life.
The first time i failed. Now i am trying again with Daniel. "

(In the night of New Year's Eve 1975, shortly after the wedding, Romy is involved in a car accident on the way from Deauville to Paris. She is in the passenger seat of Biasini's Benthley and hits her head on the front window. She has a miscarriage.)

„Even after the miscarriage in january I still want another child.“

July 21st, 1977
(Birth of daughter Sarah Magdalena Biasini)


1977
"I think the four of us – Daniel Biasini, Sarah, David and me – are really a perfect family.
I am glad that Sarah is healthy. But i am also certain that she will be my last child."


"Fame comes at a price. I pay the same price as everyone else, that you are constantly being recognized by people.
You have to watch every word you say, everything you do. Sometimes i forget this.
I am a very bad actress in real life."


"There is only one life, and i want to live it."



April 1979
"I understand my character in "A simple Story", because she shares alot of my feelings. Today i feel as if i came even with Sissi. For the people i looked as if i was carrying my crown around with me in my pocket. You can never exclude missunderstandings. Even in the best part. Your image of yourself differs from your directors image of you, and from the one the audience has Why can't I tell an author like Driest in public that i like him! I mean the artist, the writer, his work. The next thing I know people are saying i confessed my love to him, made him an immoral offer.
Why can't people just leave me alone? I can't talk when people expect me to. They say i have a foul characters because i don't always just say yes. If i lift my eyebrows i must look evil. I just wonder what they want to do with my freedom. Doesn't it belong to me?


1979
"An actress should only be judged by her work.
I do not let Photographers cross into my private life."



1980
"I dont like the word "star", i just want to be able to do my work."


"I want to educate myself, evolve, learn what is inside of me."


April 23rd, 1981
"I feel wiped out..
I hate this Sissi-Image. What do i have to offer the people except Sissi.
Sissi? I haven't been Sissi for a long time; I never was Sissi.
I am a unhappy 42 year-old woman and my name is Romy Schneider."


1981
"I have a very deep bond with my 14 year old son David. Our relationship is built on love and respect. He is a wonderful companion for me. He is excited about my work and is not afraid to give me advice or correct my french when im about to stumble across a vowel in all the excitement. Maybe he wants to be an actor or director some day as well. But at the moment his only obsession is Tennis. He is currently bugging me to go to a training camp. But he is right, I like it when he is this enthusiastic about something."


July 5th, 1981
(David dies)

"I burried the father –
I burried the son –
I have not abandoned either of them and they will always be with me."


1981
"In 1977 i declared "I am 50 movies", the way you say "I am 50 years old."
Is this my peak? I don't know the answer."


"The Passerby" is more then a movie for me.
So much more!"



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