Top 80 Marion Cotillard Quotes

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I’d love to work with Gaultier, and I’m obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.

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 don’t really pay attention to which accent I have. I’m in a singular box as an actress.

It’s always a weird feeling being on the red carpet, but the more I go, the more I try to connect myself to the here and now. And breathe. That’s the way I make the experience a good one. If I think too much – if my head is somewhere else because I’m stressed out – it shows.

I don’t want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, ‘Oh my God, what am I doing?’ I had no idea.

You fall in love with someone, you don’t know this person yet, and you get to know this person. That’s what happens when I fall in love with a character, and I want to be this person.

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.

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

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.

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

If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I’m comfortable, that’s okay – and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.

I don’t stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn’t be able to do it. And I want to change that.

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.

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.

I’m able to tell when I’m in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you’re stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn’t see fashion as an art form.

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

I never take anything personally when it doesn’t concern me.

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.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

Usually when I work, I’m totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can’t bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.

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

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

My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don’t know how to say it in English.

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

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

When you don’t have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream to fit in the movie you’re doing.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.

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

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn’t recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

You can’t work all your life.

The first time I saw ‘Macbeth’ was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

I’m always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I’m going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn’t think it was possible.

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.

The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

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

I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, ‘You know what? If you want me to do this, I’m going to need a year to prepare myself.’ But if I do that, they’ll say, ‘Thank you very much,’ and they’ll take someone else.

When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn’t know what to do. I don’t think you’re ever prepared for this.

What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.

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.

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.

I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn’t. I wouldn’t be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.

I never thought I’d have the opportunity to visit another culture.

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

Just doing movies after movies after movies, you’re never alone.

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it’s always authentic. He doesn’t try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn’t miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English – that wouldn’t come twice.

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

I don’t know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

I cry watching ‘Camille’ with Greta Garbo. I have to say that – while it might sound weird – it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It’s ‘Step Brothers.’

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.

Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.

I don’t have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can fit in any process as long as the director respects who I am and doesn’t try to put me in a situation to get something out of me – if I can give it without that situation.

It was right after I did Piaf, ‘La Vie en Rose’. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

Campaigning and acting aren’t compatible. That’s why Audrey Hepburn gave up acting. That’s why Angelina Jolie will give up. I’m not ready to stop yet.

All of the characters I’ve had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

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

‘Do I have a purpose.’ Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we’re here, it’s for a reason.

When you start a scene, and you don’t really know where you’re going to go, that’s a roller-coaster.