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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I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.
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An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
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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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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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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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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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Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.
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I was shy. I was more than shy.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.
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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.
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You can't work all your life.
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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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If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change 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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It's always a weird feeling being on the red carpet, but the more I go, the more I try to connect myself to the here and now. And breathe. That's the way I make the experience a good one. If I think too much - if my head is somewhere else because I'm stressed out - it shows.