Marion Cotillard Quotes

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.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

I don't have a goal.

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn't work.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life
not getting ready for a red carpet.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

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.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

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.

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole face, jaw and tongue in a totally different way. It was very interesting - I love the English language, which made it easier.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical ... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.