Anna Karina Quotes

Denmark, Actress
September 22, 1940 – December, 14, 2019.

Anna Karina was a Danish-French film avant garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She rose to prominence as French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's muse in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part (Band of Outsiders), Pierrot le Fou (Crazy Pete) and Alphaville. For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.

Also known as Director, Writer, Singer

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.

Anna Karina
- Words
- Feelings
- Speak
I left home when I was 17, because I couldn't get along with my second stepfather, from Denmark. At that age young people can be very brave.

Anna Karina
- Home
- Age
- Brave

Some people have scripts and scripts and lots of scripts, and they change it all the time. Even though [Jean-Luc Godard] had no script, he had it all in his heart and in his brain. He can explain it to you in a way where even if you get the dialogue five minutes before in the morning and you have to shoot it later, at least you have an idea about it, because he takes his time to explain things and to do the movements with you. There was always lots of rehearsal.

Anna Karina
- Change
- Explain
- Script
It's about being human. It's beautiful, it's touching, it's acting. It's acting and reality at the same time.

Anna Karina
- Reality
- Human
- Acting
It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds.

Anna Karina
- Faces
- Hearts
- Minds
I was the youngest actress to win the Best Actress award at the Berlin festival. Everybody was talking about me, and my mother was very proud.

Anna Karina
- Proud
- Actress
- Award
I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.

Anna Karina
- Life
- Politics
- Ignore
Everybody, even all the people with talent and genius, they had their own kind of way. But there is one way they are all the same: They're very human, and they have this sense of giving to you. It doesn't matter what kind of way they're doing it, as long as it's getting to you-as long as you're on the same road.

Anna Karina
- People
- Way
- Talent

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

Anna Karina
- Life
- Men
- Message
I don't want to do just "Hello, goodbye," only for very, very good directors like Jonathan Demme, who asked me to sing this tango in his film The Truth About Charlie (2002). If not, I really take my choices, because I'm too old to say yes to everything, and also, I've done too many good things to go do whatever now.

Anna Karina
- Film
- Choices
- Directors