I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing. . . . I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
When you go up in the ranking, for sure you have more friends.
My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.
I always try to find the positives in losing a match but it's not always easy.
The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.
My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing.
In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well. . . I wasn't entirely alone. . . It's not possible to sleep alone.
This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.