Words matter. These are the best Lea Seydoux Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As an actor, it’s up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don’t always go where you expect to find them.
I would love to take more risks – have pink hair – but it doesn’t look right on me.
In America, you don’t have to be weak, you have to be strong.
If I do too many takes, I’m too self-conscious. I think I’m better in first scenes.
For me, cinema’s like a language – everyone has their own form of it.
Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don’t have a life for six months.
I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn’t change me in the depth of my being.
I don’t like modernity. I don’t have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can’t drive a car.
I see society as something dangerous, and you have to save yourself from the rules. I think acting is the way I save myself.
Male directors always project their own desire of women – how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it’s more a projection of herself.
I love being in the States because there’s an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.
My proudest moment is when I’m part of a good film, when people are touched by it.
I found it hard to express myself in the world. I was very shy. I’m still very shy. But also, when I was a child, I could get very… I had this violence… I still get angry. But I don’t break things; I’m not hysterical.
This is why I became an actress. So that people will take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you.
In America it’s good to show people you are fine, you’re healthy, you’re sporty, you’re happy to do things, to live. And in France it’s more like you don’t have to show you have success.
It’s a misogynistic world. It’s because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.
I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.
I like a man who can respect a woman. When he’s real attentive, I think that is very manly. To respect a woman is divine.
I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I’ve become addicted to this feeling.
I’m not as beautiful as a model.
It’s true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don’t dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect – the girls are not very sporty; they don’t take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit.
In America, they are very respectful of your work. People are not judgmental. They like difference – to be different is a force. In France, you have to be like the girl next door.
I don’t have any preconceived ideas of myself. I just take things as they come.
Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you’re free, you can do what you want, you’re the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.
Whether you’re in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.
