Marion Cotillard Quotes - Page 2

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

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

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

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.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

Usually when I start to work and to prepare the movie, some inspirations, different kind of human beings, it can be someone I know, someone I don't, a girl, a boy. So usually when I start, quite right away, some inspirations come.

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

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for Michael Mann. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.

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

'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

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 don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

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

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

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

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

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.