Top 135 Quotes & Sayings by Marion Cotillard
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French actress Marion Cotillard.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
Insecurity is very common among actors. When I started giving interviews and talking to people that I didn't know, it was a nightmare. I've learned how to deal with interviews and insecurity; I've gotten used to it.
When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.
Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.
I don't have a goal.
I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.
If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.
Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
I need to be on the same page as the director.
You can't work all your life.
'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.
What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.
It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.
My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.
I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.
I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.
Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.
I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.
When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.
I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
I have busy nights.
When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.
I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn't try to put me in a situation to get something out of me - if I can give it without that situation.
I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.
I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.
My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.
I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.
I'm not a liar.
You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.
Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.
If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.
I think we're lied to about a number of things.
As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.
I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.
I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
I was shy. I was more than shy.
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