Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by Vincent Cassel

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Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Vincent Cassel is a French actor. He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film La Haine (Hate), for which he received two César Award nominations. He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), as well as Eastern Promises (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Jason Bourne (2016). Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One. In 2020, he portrayed Engerraund Serac in the HBO television series Westworld. Throughout his career, which spans more than three decades, Cassel has earned critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including a César Award in 2009 and a Canadian Screen Award in 2016.

French - Actor | Born: November 23, 1966

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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.

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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

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There's only so much you can control in life.

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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

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People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

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The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.

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There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.

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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.

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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

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I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

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You can't escape from what you are.

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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

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I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.

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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

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When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.

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To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

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I really enjoy being an actor!

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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

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I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

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My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.

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Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

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My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

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I'm a little angry in life.

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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

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I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

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I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.

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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.

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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

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