Marion Cotillard Quotes
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.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.
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I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.
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It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.
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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.
