Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes - Page 3

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.

I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.

I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop, and be with a director who even gave me acting exercises.

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.