Melanie Laurent Quotes
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I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
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Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'
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The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.
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I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
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I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
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I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.
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I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.
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I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
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It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.
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I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.
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Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.
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I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.'
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France is an old country that needs to wake up.
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.
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Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.
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I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.
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For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.
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I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'
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When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
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I'm not a crazy old cat lady!
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When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.
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When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
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It's so French to be a cat person.
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There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.