Marion Cotillard Quotes
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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.
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You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.
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Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
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An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.
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What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.
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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.
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I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
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I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.
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I was shy. I was more than shy.
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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.
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I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
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Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.
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If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
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I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
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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.
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You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.
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The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.
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When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a roller-coaster.
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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.
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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.
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You can't work all your life.
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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.
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When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into the character.