Marion Cotillard Quotes
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There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.
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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.
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I have busy nights.
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All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.
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My team puts forward a selection of dresses, and I choose the one I feel most natural in.
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You fall in love with someone, you don't know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That's what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.
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I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.
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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.
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I don't have a goal.
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Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.
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I think we're lied to about a number of things.
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The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.
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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 look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.
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I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
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When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
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As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
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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.
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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.
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Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.
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I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
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I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.